{"id":105606,"date":"2026-05-26T15:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=105606"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:20:23","slug":"daniil-medvedev-french-open-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2026\/05\/26\/daniil-medvedev-french-open-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev Knocked Out in Shocking French Open First-Round Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the seventh time in his career, Daniil Medvedev suffered a first-round exit at the French Open, falling to Australian wild card Adam Walton a thrilling five-set battle 2-6 6-1 1-6 6-1 4-6.<\/p>\n

It has been an unpredictable clay-court season for the former World #1. He suffered a shocking 6-0 6-0 defeat to Matteo Berrettini in Monte Carlo before rebounding to reach the semifinals of the Italian Open, where he pushed world No. 1 Jannik Sinner to three sets.<\/p>\n

Adam Walton Delivers Career-Defining Upset over Daniil Medvedev<\/h3>\n

Now in Paris, Walton outlasted the 2021 US Open champion<\/a> in a dramatic three-hour-and-22-minute battle. Medvedev has now crashed out in the opening round in four of his last five appearances at the French Open<\/a>. For the Australian, this victory marks the first Top 10 win of his career.<\/p>\n

The world No. 97 had previously beaten Medvedev in Cincinnati last season and has now reached the second round in Paris for the second time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I could do it and I believed,\u201d Walton said during his on-court interview<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m just happy with my performance. I\u2019m really excited right now. I\u2019m really proud of my effort in the fifth set, especially coming back from a break down to get the win.”<\/p>\n

Walton Gets Stronger in the Crucial Moments<\/h4>\n

Adam Walton\u00a0edged\u00a0Daniil Medvedev\u00a0143-141 in total points won across the five-set match. Medvedev was slightly more efficient on break points, converting 6 of 15 opportunities, while Walton converted 5 of 21. However, the Australian proved stronger in the crucial moments, winning 60% of his service points compared to Medvedev\u2019s 57%. The 27 year old also won 38% of first-serve return points and 56% of second-serve return points, underlining the pressure he consistently put to the Russian\u2019s serve throughout the match.<\/p>\n

Awaiting Walton in the second round is American Zachary Svajda, who overcame Alexei Popyrin in his opening match in four sets.<\/p>\n

Main Photo Credit: Susan Mullane-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the seventh time in his career, Daniil Medvedev suffered a first-round exit at the French Open, falling to Australian wild card Adam Walton a thrilling five-set battle 2-6 6-1 1-6 6-1 4-6. It has been an unpredictable clay-court season for the former World #1. He suffered a shocking 6-0 6-0 defeat to Matteo Berrettini […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5862,"featured_media":82852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,5,9,1],"tags":[19080,3970,498,5862,1694,8206],"class_list":["post-105606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","category-featured","category-french-open","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-adam-walton","tag-alexei-popyrin","tag-daniil-medvedev","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-matteo-berrettini","tag-zachary-svajda"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105616,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105606\/revisions\/105616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}