Daniil Medvedev reaction to US Open defeat to Jannik Sinner | ATP Tour

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Medvedev on Sinner defeat: ‘I acquired misplaced in my misses’

Fifth seed was crushed in 4 units by World No. 1 on Wednesday at US Open

September 05, 2024

Daniil Medvedev was dissatisfied and disheartened by his quarter-final exit by the hands of Jannik Sinner on Wednesday night on the US Open. But in trademark vogue for one of many ATP Tour’s grasp tacticians, it didn’t take lengthy for the World No. 5 to kind an in depth evaluation of his four-set defeat.

“[It’s a] powerful loss,” stated Medvedev after Sinner’s 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 6-4 triumph in New York. “I’m positively not proud of the way in which I performed typically, as a result of there have been some excellent moments and a few not so good. So typically it is a powerful feeling if you come out, and on the finish it is uncommon that I get tight, however ultimately I acquired tremendous tight.

“Once I was lacking, I did not really feel why I used to be lacking, so I could not appropriate it, after which I acquired tremendous tight on the finish, and it was even more durable. Not a straightforward feeling, not proud of myself, however that is tennis, it is okay. I misplaced. I am going dwelling.”

After dropping the opening set, Medvedev eased to the second in a topsy-turvy encounter inside Arthur Ashe Stadium. He was unable to take care of that momentum, nevertheless, and was finally defeated in 4 units as Sinner avenged his five-set defeat within the pair’s Wimbledon quarter-final two months in the past.

“The primary set was horrible for me. I feel virtually even most likely worse than the third one,” mirrored Medvedev. “I managed to resolve a variety of issues within the second set. Performed higher. Identical within the fourth set, like I managed to begin fixing some issues that I had within the third set. So these are the constructive issues.”

Medvedev arrived in New York off the again of three straight defeats on the Paris Olympics, in Montreal and Cincinnati, respectively. He put that stoop in kind behind him by dropping only one set throughout his first 4 rounds on the US Open, however acknowledged he nonetheless didn’t really feel like he had utterly settled into the North American hard-court swing.

“A idea I’ve is that right here I noticed it in follow, the week earlier than the match,” stated Medvedev, who’s 39-14 for the 12 months. “The balls, the courts, not simple. It was the identical in Montreal, Cincinnati, it is not tremendous simple to manage them. So generally you’re feeling such as you’re doing all good and then you definately miss after which you’ve query marks.

“However earlier than I performed possibly I used to be extra like assured with myself that I’ll win this match even when I miss some pictures. So possibly right now I used to be going for a bit of bit extra dangerous pictures, I used to be lacking only a bit extra. One second I sort of acquired misplaced in my misses. Possibly it was the identical for him a bit of bit, as a result of I nonetheless managed to many occasions put him in bother even when it was not sufficient.”

Along with his newest win in opposition to Medvedev, Sinner continued to eat away at his rival’s lead of their Lexus ATP Head2Head sequence. Medvedev at one level led the Italian 6-0, however Sinner has since received six of seven conferences between the pair to chop the deficit to 6-7.

“Currently it has been a tricky one for me, however on the identical time, truthfully right now, evaluating to some matches I performed with him final 12 months when he began to beat me, I felt like I used to be doing the fitting issues,” stated Medvedev when requested about his matchup with Sinner. “I simply did not handle to execute them properly. I really feel just like the match itself, he was doing the fitting factor and I used to be doing the fitting factor.

“So I really feel like we each come out of this match considering, ‘Okay, now I really feel what he does’. Effectively, the one factor is that I misplaced, and he received. So he can be feeling higher. To have massive rivalries like this at all times pushes me to be higher, and generally I lose; generally I win. I’ll attempt to be higher subsequent time, and that is the one factor I can do.”

Though Medvedev’s look forward to his second main title after his 2021 US Open triumph goes on, his quarter-final run in New York has had a constructive short-term influence in the case of his hopes of competing on the Nitto ATP Finals for the sixth consecutive 12 months. The 28-year-old, who has not received a tour-level title since his Rome triumph in Could 2023, has consolidated fourth place within the PIF ATP Reside Race To Turin, with Taylor Fritz the one participant remaining within the draw in a position to leapfrog him in the course of the US Open.