Olympic hockey champion Ilya Kovalchuk during a conversation with , he expressed the hope that the Russian tennis player Daniel Medvedev will definitely win the next Grand Slam tournament.
Medvedev lost to Italian Jannik Sinner in the final of the Australian Open with a score of 6:3, 6:3, 4:6, 4:6, 3:6. The 22-year-old Italian won a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in his career.
— Did you follow Daniil Medvedev’s speech?
– I was looking. In our locker room before games, they turned on the monitor and we watched his games. We watched the semi-final with Zverev and the final with Sinner – the first two sets in the locker room, and when we returned home after training, something was wrong with him. We supported him, worried, but unfortunately, Daniil was unable to crush his opponent.
– Maybe he didn’t have enough strength? After all, two five-set matches in a row.
– Certainly. But I think tennis players are good with their physique. Maybe there was a psychological moment, I don’t know. But we were very worried about him. Let’s hope that he will definitely win the next Grand Slam tournament. I went to Medvedev’s matches. He played with the same guy in the tournament final in Miami, and then Medvedev won.
— Do you often play tennis yourself?
– Yes, I really like it. In summer, I often play tennis. For a while, I was training constantly. Tennis is good training for us,” Kovalchuk told .
Medvedev lost in the final of a Grand Slam tournament for the fifth time in his career, the third time at the Australian Open. The 27-year-old Russian won the US Open in 2021.
Source : MatchTV
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