Athletistic/Tennis. Daniil Medvedev continues to win. Earlier, the Russian defeated Italian Yannick Sinner with the score 6:4, 6:2 and reached the semi-finals of the tournament in Vienna. His next opponent will be the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov.
In the 1/2 final, the Russian tennis player will perform for the eighth time this season.
For most of the season, Medvedev held the No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings, but Daniil lost his lead due to an unsuccessful performance at US Open 2022, where the tennis player dropped out of the fight in 1/ 8 finals. Now Medvedev is the 4th racket in the world.
Medvedev met Dimitrov five times and won three.
Here’s how Medvedev’s match at the Vienna tournament was rated by foreign tennis fans:
Mast S:
– Medvedev continues to demonstrate cool form, which we witnessed in Astana. Of course, I wouldn’t want to get ahead of myself until Daniil starts winning titles again, but now everything seems like the Russian is reaching a very high level again. He’s gone back to brick wall mode, which he hadn’t turned on for a long time before, well, he’s doing great to serve this week.
Wow:
– When the season slowly unfolded in the halls, Daniil suddenly turned into a completely different player. I can’t even remember another first racquet in the world, the results of which would depend so much on the surface. However, I have to admit it’s nice to see that he’s starting to play well again. In this form, he will be one of the main contenders for victory at the ATP Finals.
Ballbashing Mug:
– If he wins the Paris or Turin tournament, we can consider that Medvedev saved the season.
Chelsea:
– Medvedev looked really cool. He acted very solid on the back line, well, he served cool. He never had to win back a break point, and even the “exactly” score on his serve, it seemed to me, was not in this game. Routine victory. I can’t imagine that he lost the Vienna tournament, despite the level he displays.
Zjtennis:
– The Russian, of course, was too good, but Sinner already seemed on vacation.
Hammet:
– I’m not really quoting the new generation of tennis, but the confrontation between Medvedev and Alcaraz, despite their differences as tennis players, can turn into an interesting story for years to come.
Medvedev is a former world No. 1 in singles. Winner of a Grand Slam tournament (US Open 2021), finalist of three Grand Slam singles tournaments (US Open 2019, Australian Open 2021, Australian Open 2022), winner of the ATP Finals 2020, finalist of the 2021 ATP Tournament Final, winner of 14 ATP singles tournaments, winner of the Davis Cup and the 2021 ATP Cup as part of the Russian national team. One of three Russian tennis players in history to have won the Grand Slam tournament in men’s singles.
Recall that in January 2022 Medvedev played for the Russian national team at the ATP Cup. Due to Aslan Karatsev, Andrey Rublev and Evgeny Donskoy testing positive for coronavirus, Daniil spent the entire tournament in tandem with Roman Safiullin. After defeating France, Australia and Italy in the group stage, Medvedev and Safiullin reached the semi-finals from first place in group B. In the semi-finals, the Russian team lost against the team Canadian. Daniel won in his match against Felix Auger-Aliassime – 6:4, 6:0. But the decisive doubles match was lost – this match was the first pair loss with Safiullin in this tournament – Daniil and Roman won all three group stage doubles matches.
At the 2022 Australian Open, Medvedev was seeded No. 2, but with No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic unable to compete due to issues with Australia’s anti-coronavirus regulations, the Russian took part in his first Grand Slam of his career with the highest seeded number. . The final took place on January 30. Medvedev was opposed by Rafael Nadal. Daniil won the first set with a score of 6:2, taking twice the opponent’s serve to nil. In the second set, Rafael Nadal led 5:3, but Daniel brought the game to a tie-break, where he won with the score 7:5. In the third set, the score was 3:2 and 0:40 in favor of Daniel. But Rafael Nadal turned the game around and won the third and fourth sets with a score of 6:4, then the fifth with a score of 5:7. The match ended with the score 6:2, 7:6 (7:5), 4:6, 4:6, 5:7. The final lasted 5 hours and 24 minutes, becoming the second longest in history.
At Roland-Garros, Medvedev was seeded number two and managed to reach the fourth round, successively beating Facundo Bagnis, Laszlo Gyore and Miomir Ketsmanovich and not giving up a set to his opponents. However, Daniil then lost without a chance to Marin Cilic in straight sets (2:6, 3:6, 2:6).
At the 2022 US Open, Medvedev confidently walked through the first three rounds without giving up a single set to his opponents. In the 4th round, Daniil lost to Nick Kyrgios for the second time in a month – this time in 4 sets. At the end of the tournament, after 13 consecutive weeks on the first line of the ATP rankings, Medvedev fell back to fourth place. The leader of the classification was the winner of the tournament Carlos Alcaraz.
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