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USA Today via Reuters

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USA Today via Reuters

Over the past couple of hours, users of popular social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp have been facing an outage as the reason behind this downtime is yet to be revealed. As a result of this, Twitter has become the only source of entertainment for everyone.

To connect the aforementioned news with tennis, ESPN Tenis, the Spanish language sports branch of ESPN, took the photo of Daniil Medvedev celebrating his US Open victory and related it to the present situation.

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Medvedev’s celebratory moment at US Open was posted with a hilarious caption

Post his commanding victory over Novak Djokovic in the US Open finals, the Russian did a FIFA-related celebration, named ‘Dead Fish‘. Medvedev even explained what it meant during the winners’ speech.

The social media team at ESPN Tenis took Medvedev’s picture and wrote, “Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp right now…”

With Twitter being the only active social media site at the moment, scores of tennis fans are finding the tweet to be hilarious.

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Daniil Medvedev benefits from the absence of Novak Djokovic at Indian Wells 2021

Coming to Daniil Medvedev, he is all set to enter the Indian Wells event as the no.1 seed as Novak Djokovic decided to opt out of the tournament. The BNP Paribas Open will not have any player from Big-3 (Djokovic, Nadal, Federer) for the first time since 2000.

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While this might be disheartening for fans, there is a huge scope once again for youngsters such as Stefanos Tsitsipas, Andrey Rublev, and others to cash in on the opportunity and make it big at Indian Wells this year.

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Surely, with his unique game, the Russian is gaining the love of fans across ages as he aims for the year end World No.1 spot. Even though it is a herculean task to accomplish, Medvedev will benefit from Djokovic’s absence at the BNP Paribas Open.

 

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