"I Can Be Fairly Impolite with My Private Area" – Medvedev Explains Why He's Not Excited by Doing a Documentary

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday April 28, 2025

Daniil Medvedev took a take a look at Carlos Alcaraz’s lately launched Netflix documentary “My Method” and it didn’t take the Russian lengthy to understand he didn’t need any a part of that.

“It is cameras throughout you, everywhere in the day. That is not me,” Medvedev mentioned. “Once I’m on court docket, I attempt to signal loads of autographs. Even when you’re within the official lodges otherwise you’re out on a vacation, lots of people camp exterior the lodges. And it is fantastic, I signal, I take photos.”

The Russian says he likes to maintain clear traces of demarcation between his skilled and his private life, and particularly now that he has youngsters. He doesn’t need to be bothered when he’s into his very priceless private area.

He expressed related sentiments when speaking in regards to the Netflix sequence “Break Level” in 2024. “I did not watch it and doubtless won’t as a result of I will get pissed off most likely,” he mentioned with a smile. “I haven’t got a lot so as to add as a result of, yeah, sequence just isn’t actual life.”

It’s a subject that Medvedev has given loads of thought to. He’s some of the attention-grabbing personalities on tour, however he might be controversial. In any case, he’s completely satisfied to maintain the cameras away for now.

“Once I’m having dinner, after I’m with my household I do not [sign autographs] he mentioned. “Persons are like, ‘Oh, let’s take a photograph,’ after I’m consuming dinner. And I am like, ‘Nope.’ After dinners it is okay. I might be fairly impolite with my private area.”

Giving a documentary crew full entry to his life can be too loopy for the previous World No.1.

“If I give it to the documentary I’ll get nuts, particularly while you give your permission to them, they need extra,” he mentioned. “They need to movie your daughters, they need to movie your spouse, they need to ask them questions, they need to ask you extra about your private life.”

Medvedev loves his followers, however he doesn’t need them to step over the road with him and his household.

“They need to know who you date, what you’ve for dinner, when you take your bathe for five or quarter-hour. However it is advisable hold one thing for your self, in any other case they take all of your life away. In order that’s most likely why I’ll by no means do a documentary, however let’s examine, I by no means say by no means.”