Matteo Berrettini walked onto Court Rainier III on Wednesday as a wild card with little expected of him. He walked off having produced one of the most startling results of the 2026 tennis season.
The Italian dismantled seventh seed Daniil Medvedev 6-0 6-0 in just 49 minutes at the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, handing the Russian the first double bagel of his professional career and leaving a capacity crowd at the Monte-Carlo Country Club in stunned silence before breaking into applause.
Medvedev won just 17 points across the entire match — a performance so far removed from the level that carried him to a world No. 1 ranking in previous years that it immediately became the talking point of the clay-court swing. Berrettini became the first ATP player to win a match without dropping a single game against a top-10 opponent in a decade.
The former Wimbledon finalist was precise and punishing throughout, exploiting Medvedev’s discomfort on the red clay with heavy topspin and aggressive net approaches. Medvedev did not register a single game point on his own serve across the entire match — a statistic that, more than any other, illustrated the depth of the collapse.
THE MELTDOWN — The frustration boiled over when Medvedev fell to 6-0 2-0 down. He hurled his racket to the back of the court, then picked it back up and smashed it on the ground before calmly placing it in the bin. By the final whistle, he had destroyed his racket six times and accumulated 28 unforced errors.
Jamie Murray, working as a pundit for Sky Sports Tennis, described the result as shocking, adding that he expected Medvedev would be embarrassed by the performance. The Russian himself offered no post-match comments immediately available at the time of publication.
BERRETTINI’S REVIVAL — The result marks a significant moment in Berrettini’s attempts to rebuild his career following a series of injury disruptions that have limited him in recent seasons. Entering Monte-Carlo without a seeding and carrying little match momentum, the 29-year-old produced the kind of commanding clay-court tennis that once made him a genuine contender on the surface. He advances to the third round, where the quality of opposition will rise sharply.
For Medvedev, the exit will sting well beyond the scoreline. The Russian arrived in Monaco having won eight of his ten most recent matches and was considered a legitimate contender for a deep run. Instead, he departs without a single game to his name — and with the knowledge that he has now been on the wrong end of 10 sets that ended 6-0 across his career.
The quarterfinals remain on the horizon for the rest of a draw still full of intrigue, with world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner both through and in action again on Thursday.
