Tennis bad boy Daniil Medvedev threw his latest tantrum at the U.S. Open in New York City on Sunday, August 24 — and even his biggest fan, wife Daria Medvedeva, has had enough.
After a photographer inadvertently interrupted match point during the Russian player’s first-round match against France’s Benajamin Bonzi, the umpire awarded Bonzi, a re-do of his first serve.
Daniil, 29, exploded with rage, working the crowd into a nearly five-minute booing frenzy.
“Are you a man? Why are you shaking?” he furiously asked the umpire. “He wants to go home, guys.”
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In the stands, Daria, sat with her head in her hands. Her husband eventually lost the match, and she was seen leaving while Medvedev smashed his racket on the sidelines in one final meltdown, per video posted on X by ESPN.
So who is the woman Medvedev described to reporters at a 2019 press conference as “one of the most important members of my team”?
She’s A Former Tennis Player
Daniil met Daria, née Chernyshkova, when they were teens on the competitive tennis circuit and rented a house together in Norwary when they were 14.
“It’s great that she understands tennis,” Daniil said at the 2019 press conference. “It helped me to become better as a person and a player.”
Daria — who goes by Dasha — ended her career at 18 due to injury but continued to follow Daniil’s career, per Russia’s Tatler magazine in 2021. She was studying journalism at Moscow State University when they reconnected on Instagram.
They met up while she was visiting Nice, France, and he was living in nearby Antibes. “I flew in for a couple of days, we had dinner, celebrated, got to talking,” she told Tatler. “From then on, everything started to develop somehow.”
She’s Been Married to Daniil For Seven Years
The pair wed on September 12, 2018, in a private ceremony. “I always say that it’s the moment I made the proposal to her, that’s when I started to go up [in tennis rankings],” he told reporters at the 2019 press conference.
Three years later on their anniversary, Daniil, who has been seen playing with his wedding ring on a chain around his neck, defeated Novak Djokovic to win his first U.S. Open.
Daniil didn’t get a chance to buy a gift for his wife before the tournament, he told reporters at a press conference after the match. “So when I went in the final… the only thing I thought [was], ‘If I lose I have no time to have a present. So I have to win this match. I love you, Dasha.’”
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She Has Two Kids With Daniil
They welcomed daughter Alisa on October 14, 2022. Their second daughter, Vika, was born on January 7, 2025.
“I don’t always succeed to be the best father I want to be, but it teaches you,” Daniil told tennis.com in 2024. “I am even trying to read books about it because I really want her to grow up as a happy person.”
Daniil sees himself in Alisa’s tantrums, he admitted. “If something doesn’t go her way, then she throws a toy in anger or bites it. My wife is looking at me saying, ‘Okay, where does it come from?’ And that’s pretty funny because you start asking yourself if it’s just pure genetics and I don’t have an answer to this question.”
She Started Her Own Company
Daria is the co-founder of RaWQ energy bars alongside her friend, nutritionist Arina Kuzmina.
“I wanted to help Daniil to become more professional,” Daria shared in an Instagram video posted on February 2, 2024.
When she looked for energy bars to build his strength for matches, she added, “we couldn’t find anything perfect with low sugar. Finally, we decided to create it by ourselves.”
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She’s An Influencer
In addition to her company, Daria is an FP Movement partner. She began showing off the activewear brand’s sneakers, a collaboration with Lacoste, on social media in May.
“Thank you FP Movement, for the ultimate princess treatment,” she wrote on Instagram in June after visiting their gifting suite and tennis clinic in Paris during the French Open.