Medvedev vs Zverev rivalry unlocked: The week men's tennis got its claws out

LISTENER QUESTIONS

Chris Thornton asks: “I know it’s not ‘new’, but does legal on-court coaching favour younger players, who may be more fleet of foot, but less experienced problem-solvers, compared to their potentially more experienced opponents, who my not be the athletes they once were, but greater problem-solvers?”

Twitter user Ppeanut says: “Can Rafa win FO this year and what are his chances for a second gold medal next year?”

Ian Warren in Melbourne asks: “During the Masters coverage last week Rory McIlroy was interviewed by CBS walking up the 9th fairway. How long before we see something similar in Tennis? End of the set hook up with the comms team?!”

Balvin Cetton asks: “How are we going to stop singles players entering doubles and then pulling out?”

‘Anja loves tennis’ wants us to talk about “Daniil Medvedev's sneaky tricks and how he lulls everyone by his rhetorical skills”

IN TENNIS NEWS

Andrey Rublev comes from behind to win his first Masters 1000 title in Monte Carlo

Daniil Medvedev hits back at “unfair” accusations from Alexander Zverev by essentially telling him he has more friends than him

Novak Djokovic loses to Lorenzo Musetti and gets very grumpy about it indeed

Great Britain are beaten 3-1 by France in the Billie Jean King Cup (but will probably work their way into the finals anyway)

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