'He's chalking up this claycourt swing': CoCo Vandeweghe fooled by fake comment of Daniil Medvedev live on air

Former Australian tennis player CoCo Vandeweghe made a blunder on air, citing a fake quote from Russian tennis star Daniil Medvedev. The one-time Grand Slam winner suffered a defeat in the first round of the French Open to Britain’s Cameron Norrie with a score of 7-5, 6-3, 4-6, 1-6, 7-5.

A parody page on the social media platform X—previously known as Twitter—with the name of Tennis Centel, posted a fake quote of Medvedev. "Honestly, man...I might skip the clay season next year. F--- clay,” was the quote. Former American tennis player Vandeweghe, who is working for TNT Sports during the Roland Garros transmission, quoted a fake quote of Medvedev without realising that he never said that. "Even said in that press conference, 'Maybe next year I'll just skip the claycourt season.' So, he's chalking up this claycourt swing as just maybe a trial and error," she said.

The defeat was a major setback for Medvedev as it was the sixth time in nine outings at the Roland Garros that the Russian tennis star suffered a defeat in the first round. Talking after the match, Medvedev admitted that his form since the end of 2023 has not been the same and also admitted that he has decided to change some things, which as of now, are not paying dividends as he would have liked.

“Until 2023, I [had] never done it,” said Medvedev. “Something started to change on Tour, I had to adapt. Now I'm never sure. I played Karen [Khachanov in Doha]. During the match, I see that I'm not going to win. So I changed my strings to completely different strings and I win the match… Every tournament is so different. This one is so different from Rome and Madrid. [The] clay, the balls, everything. I had one week here. I didn't find anything that worked well. So during the match, I had to change something when I was losing. It actually worked. Unfortunately I didn't win.”