Russian tennis player Daniel Medvedev I made the difference between losing to an Italian Jannik sinner the final of the 2024 Australian Open and the defeat against the Spaniard Rafael Nadal in the decisive match of the same tournament in 2022.
On Sunday, Medvedev was beaten by Italian Jannik Sinner 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 3-6 in the final of the Australian Open, leading 2-0 in sets. Two years ago, the Russian lost to Spaniard Rafael Nadal in Melbourne with a score of 6:2, 7:6 (7:5), 4:6, 4:6, 5:7.
— In 2022, after losing to Nadal, you said that you felt like a little boy who had stopped dreaming, and this year the final followed a similar scenario. Can you tell us about the difference between how you deal with this issue today versus then?
– Yes, I would say that now I have different feelings, these are different circumstances. Right now, I’m dreaming more than ever. But I would say that he is no longer a child who dreams. Now it’s me, a 27 year old man who dreams and does everything possible for his future and for his present. I love tennis, that’s why I reached the final. I wanted to win. Was I really close to the trophy? It’s hard to say, but it wasn’t far off.
Yes, the score in these finals is the same, but I think this match was a little different. I didn’t think much about the Rafa match because I was really trying to put it behind me, so I don’t think there were any problems with that. Otherwise there would have been many matches in the season where I would have lost. And today, I didn’t have the feeling that suddenly, when I was one set away from victory, I had stopped playing. I really didn’t make any big mistakes. I think Sinner started to play better, a little differently tactically, because I offered him an aggressive game at the start of the match.
I was a little tired physically, but like in every match before, and in every match before, my opponents couldn’t take advantage of it, they were tired too. In the fifth set I fought and thought I would try to win even if I couldn’t feel my legs tomorrow. I had a few chances at the end of the match, but Yannick didn’t look as tired as my opponents before. He started playing better. And I was a little tired, the service got a little worse. The momentum of the game changed and I really tried to bring it back mentally because that’s what tennis is. I didn’t succeed, so he is the winner and he has the trophy,” Medvedev said at a press conference.
Daniil Medvedev loses in the final of a Grand Slam tournament for the fifth time in his career, the third time at the Australian Open. In 2021, the 27-year-old Russian won the US Open.
Sinner won the Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career. He became the first Italian tennis player to win the Australian Open in singles.
Source : MatchTV
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