Thrown Out: Tennis's Biggest Defaults, From McEnroe to Medvedev

What actually gets a tennis player thrown out of a match? Twelve cases, from John McEnroe at the 1990 Australian Open to Daniil Medvedev in Beijing this month: who was defaulted, who wasn't, and the pattern behind it. The take at the end is our opinion. Sources: AP, Reuters, AFP, ESPN, CBS News, CBS Sports, NPR, Sports Illustrated, Sky Sports, Yahoo Sports/The Athletic, Al Jazeera, SBS, Otago Daily Times, CBC, History.com, Tennis Majors, Tennis.com, Tennis Now, Tennis365, Sportico, AOL, Fox News/OutKick, the USTA statement of 6 Sep 2020, the ATP rulings of Feb and Mar 2022, and the players' own Instagram posts (Djokovic, Kyrgios, Zverev, Atmane). Rennae Stubbs' post on X. Medvedev's cost figure is Sportico's estimate. Social posts are shown as text only. #tennis #tennisnews #medvedev #djokovic #mcenroe #codeviolation