{"id":303153,"date":"2023-06-01T22:51:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T22:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=303153"},"modified":"2023-06-02T03:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T03:00:29","slug":"interview-stopped-as-american-showered-in-boos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=303153","title":{"rendered":"Interview stopped as American showered in boos"},"content":{"rendered":"

American star Taylor Fritz was likened to Daniil Medvedev<\/a> after being mercilessly booed by the Roland-Garros<\/a> crowd, but ultimately having the last laugh.<\/p>\n

The men's No.9 seed \ufeffrolled French hope Arthur Rinderknech 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 on Court Suzanne Lenglen to reach the third round of the Paris slam.<\/p>\n

But the crowd turned on the American from the moment he walked on the court, and continued booing even after he walked off.<\/p>\n

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When \ufeffRinderknech hit one long to end the match, Fritz turned to the crowd and put his finger to his lips.<\/p>\n

\"Taylor<\/p>\n

The booing intensified, but the American egged them on.<\/p>\n

"Come on! I wanna hear it," he yelled.<\/p>\n

Fritz had to pause his on-court interview because he couldn't hear the questions being asked, such was the extent of the crowd carry-on.<\/p>\n

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When he did speak it was with more than a hint of sarcasm.<\/p>\n

"\ufeffThe crowd was so great, honestly," he said.<\/p>\n

"The crowd was so great that I\ufeff had to let it fire me up. They cheered so loud for me that I had to make sure that I won, you know?<\/p>\n

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"Thanks guys."\ufeff<\/p>\n

Fritz's perfect response to the feral crowd was reminiscent of when Medvedev went head to head with the Flushing Meadows spectators in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Four years ago the young Russian\ufeff was booed during his third round win over Feliciano Lopez, and later taunted the crowd by claiming, "your energy tonight gave me the win".<\/p>\n

Medvedev was again booed at the US Open when winning the 2021 final against Novak Djokovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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American star Taylor Fritz was likened to Daniil Medvedev after being mercilessly booed by the Roland-Garros crowd, but ultimately having the last laugh. The men's […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":303155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303156,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303153\/revisions\/303156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/303155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}