By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday August 25, 2023
Daniil Medvedev is like all of us relating to the budding Djokovic v Alcaraz rivalry: he can’t assist however be captivated.
In the present day at US Open media day the 2021 US Open champion advised reporters a narrative about this yr’s Wimbledon closing, one which he didn’t initially plan to look at.
“I often say I do not watch matches after I lose a match,” Medvedev mentioned. “So throughout Wimbledon, I did not watch it, however I observe the stay rating. It is simple on the telephone. At one second I noticed they’d a 30-minute recreation. I used to be like, ‘Okay, I will watch it. I turned it on. It was superb to look at.’”
Medvedev mentioned he was shocked by how each gamers responded to adversity through the five-set affair.
“It was superb to look at as a result of Novak was sort of down to start with of the fourth set. I used to be shocked he managed to win it with the best way the match was going,” he mentioned. “Then on the similar time I used to be shocked how Carlos managed to show it again.
“That is why in the intervening time they’re No. 1 and a pair of on the earth. You can’t argue with that as a result of they’re in a position, even after they play in opposition to one another, to show this match round so many instances.”
Carlos Alcaraz.
Novak Djokovic.
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Medvedev mentioned he additionally watched the pair sq. off within the Cincinnati closing.
“Superb degree,” he mentioned. “It was not straightforward to play in Cincinnati. The balls are powerful to regulate. They do not care about this. They nonetheless play their greatest. All this championship factors saved, we go to the tiebreak. Was superb to see.”
The No.3 seed, who’s slated to face Alcaraz within the semifinals if the seeds maintain, says he plans to do no matter he can to keep away from having to look at them once more in two weeks’ time.
“Nice rivalry thus far,” he mentioned of the highest two seeds. “However yeah, now each match, a purpose for everybody is to attempt to cease them from taking part in one another.”
Medvedev, 23-5 lifetime on the Open, will open accounts in New York with a first-round conflict in opposition to Hungary’s Attila Balazs.
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