Daniil Medvedev isn’t interested in making another tennis documentary

Daniil Medvedev is happy to entertain fans on the tennis court but is drawing the line at kind of 24/7 access Carlos Alcaraz gave to create his self-titled Netflix docuseries.

Though Medvedev and Alcaraz participated in Break Point, an ensemble reality series that ran two seasons on the popular streaming service, the former was critical of his portrayal in the wake of the second season’s release.

“The series is not real life,” said the 2021 US Open champion of what fans and fellow players deemed his “villain edit,” and the experience appears to have soured him on the medium going forward.

“I saw, for example, how Carlos's one was done, you know, and, damn, it's cameras all over you, all over the day,” Medvedev said at the Mutua Madrid Open on Sunday. “That's not me. That's just, I mean, I get, like when I'm on court I try to sign a lot of autographs. When I'm, let's say, even if you're in the official hotels or you're out on a holiday, a lot of people camp outside the hotels. And it's fine, I sign, I take pictures. But like when I'm having dinner, when I'm with my family I don't.

“I sometimes can be, it's not rude, but people are like, ‘Oh, let's take a photo,’ when I'm eating dinner. And I'm like, ‘Nope.’ After dinner's it's okay. So I'm pretty, I can be pretty rude with my personal space.”

Alcaraz’s series, entitled My Way, dropped last week and chronicled the Spaniard’s 2024 season with featured interviews from coach Juan Carlos Ferrero, idols like Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal and members of his family—Medvedev citing the latter as a primary reason for his reluctance.

“If I give it to the documentary I'm going to get nuts, like because, especially when you give your permission to them, they want more. They want to film your daughters, they want to film your wife, they want to ask them questions, they want to ask you more about your personal life.

“I remember I saw an interview of Jack Harlow, and he said that people around you, not your friends, like fans and everyone, they want to know everything about you. They want to know who you date, who, how, what you have for dinner, if you take your shower for 5 or 15 minutes. But you need to keep something for yourself, otherwise they take all your life away.

“So that's probably why I will never do a documentary, but let's see, I never say never.”

Perhaps Medvedev takes the camera into his own hands and launches a YouTube channel, but few can argue the former world No. 1, who is looking to complete a set of Masters 1000 semifinal appearances at the Caja Magica this week, doesn’t already give us plenty of content.