Famous sports psychologist Vadim Gushchin, who worked in the Russian national tennis team, told RB Sport that the peculiarity of the game Daniel Medvedev lies in the combination of his intelligence and amazing coordination.
– Do you know at least one tennis player who entered MGIMO, and before that he studied in a school of physics and mathematics? I don’t know, said Gushchin. “Those just don’t come into our teams. I’m not sure there are people in other teams who have come into MGIMO not as athletes, but because of the totality of their acquaintances. This is Dany.
“Really, it’s unusual.
– At a turning point in Medvedev’s career, his sister married a Frenchman, and he himself ended up in France. This is the very happy occasion, thanks to which we now have a great tennis player. It could work, like with Lena Rybakina, who hasn’t found sponsors in Russia and is playing for Kazakhstan. Danya could quit tennis altogether and go to school, he’s one of the smartest athletes I know.
– And this is one of the success factors of his career?
– Yes. He plays “mathematical” tennis. Not like other athletes, but on the intellect he calculates everything. And his coach is an interesting, original person (Frenchman Gilles Servara. – ed.). In Russia, Medvedev did not find his coach, there were not enough funds, Danya, I say, was about to finish. And in France, he realized he could play.
– How is he so thin, frail in appearance, that he can withstand the pressures of tennis?
– According to the addition, Danya doesn’t look like a top tennis player. Damn yes, there are health issues. But such a constitution allows him to do unique things on the pitch. Medvedev is able to strike from a position that no other tennis player can strike from. Everyone in the team was surprised: “How? From the position from which he strikes, from the point of view of coordination, impossible to break through! And Medvedev doesn’t just knock, he knocks. A person “forms” in a way that, it seems, cannot be formed. Here, you know, there is a classic technique. Dani’s is not at all classic. The absolutely incredible combination of intelligence and coordination, unlike what is seen in others, makes him strong on the pitch, unpredictable to opponents.
Medvedev has reached the final in five consecutive tournaments. Last week he won the Miami tournament. Previously, he had victories at tournaments in Rotterdam, Doha and Dubai, and lost to Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz in the recent Masters final in Indian Wells.
RB Sports
Source : MatchTV
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