Everyone has a senior moment from time to time.
Daniil Medvedev had his in the middle of Wimbledon on Wednesday — much to the crowd’s amusement — at Center Court when he forgot the score of his match during the first set against Alexandre Muller.
The comedic moment didn’t spoil the Russian’s day as he took the game 6-7(3), 7-6(4), 6-4, 7-5 to advance to the third round of Wimbledon.
When the moment occurred, Muller trailed Medvedev 6-3 and angrily stormed off to his chair and sat down.
In a clip posted to the tournament’s social media, the announcers quickly noticed Medvedev was unaware of the score.
“He doesn’t know the score,” one of the broadcasters says in the clip. “He thinks that’s set.”
After seemingly motioning to someone on the other end of the court what he thought the score was, Medvedev quickly realized the situation and ran back onto the court.
The crowd — realizing what happened — then began to laugh and applaud.
Mueller went on to take the tiebreak, 7-3, before the Russians won three straight sets.
“It was a very tough, physical match,” Medvedev said, according to the ATP Tour. “Alex played well and some moments in the match were very tough to stay in touch with him. I was losing by one set and a break. On grass that is never easy, but I managed to stay solid, always stay in the match and try to fight. Definitely happy with the win. I should have played much better, but it’s OK. When you win, there is a next round to try to do better.”
Medvedev is ranked No. 5 in the world and will take on 32nd seed Zhang Zhizhen or Jan-Lennard Struff in the next round.
