Daniil Medvedev Puts ‘Thief’ Claims to the Bed as He Breaks His Silence on Viral China Open Clip With Jannik Sinner
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After the China Open final of men’s singles, during the award ceremony, a funny moment was caught between the winner Jannik Sinner, and the runner-up Daniil Medvedev as they were given their trophies. While they were photographing their victory with their trophies, it was seen that Daniil took a toy from Jannik’s trophy (from inside the cup), and just left the stage afterward.
A lot of speculations came up on the incident. People even assumed that he took the toy to give to his daughter. Finally, Daniil has spoken about why he apparently ‘stole’ the toy from Jannik clearing all the speculation going around it.
Daniil Medvedev clears the air on taking the toy from Jannik Sinner’s trophy
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The silence is finally broken and Daniil has opened up about what actually went down in the viral video of him taking a toy from Jannik Sinner. People around the world have been waiting to know what actually happened and here it is directly from the star of the video himself.
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Daniil cleared up what happened at the time. He said, “It was mine. The thing is that they gave us both a toy, & he put him straight away in his trophy, in the cup. And, I didn’t want to be with a toy in the pictures because I knew that it was a great picture. So I put mine in his cup & took it back.”
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He even mentioned how he was surprised about this becoming such a big deal.
Daniil Medvedev on taking the toy from Jannik Sinner’s trophy:
“It was mine. The thing is that they gave us both a toy, & he put his straight away in his trophy, in the cup. And me, I didn't want to be with a toy on the pictures because I knew that it's a great picture. So I put… pic.twitter.com/gDYkdCn1oz
— The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) October 6, 2023
Further, he also added that some of the photos and videos around this topic are really funny as it can be seen that he just took the toy and left the stage. Even Sinner explained his side of the story after witnessing the buzz around the video.
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Jannik Sinner also talks about what happened at the trophy ceremony
During the series of videos that went viral with comments, some of the people mentioned that Sinner looked annoyed when Medvedev took the trophy. So he explained that it was nothing like that. Jannik shared that it was Daniil’s toy and he had put it in his trophy so they could take a picture.
He also shared that if he looked annoyed it was because he was trying to ask Daniil something which he could not because of the cameras and noise. He was asking Daniil about his travel plans about how he was traveling by train or flying. And that was all it was.
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No matter what happened, the buzz this video created was fun, especially with people making their own assumptions about it!
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Edited by:
Caroline Joseph