Daniil Medvedev’s season is being the most peculiar, in essence, what is the Russian, a peculiar tennis player. The ATP ranking is also capricious, whose rankings do not correspond in many moments with the current tennis level of the players. The Moscow campaign is going that way. This year, Medvedev has reached the highest position of his career in the world rankings for settle in number 2 in the world, winning mattress with number 3 after Nadal’s stumble in the semi-finals of Roland Garros, but far from a Djokovic who seems unattainable on the tennis throne.
And the fact is that Medvedev’s irregular season (22-7 balance) leaves him few options to reach the top, to continue like this. In four tournaments played this year, the Russian has lost in his first or second match, namely: Rotterdam, Madrid, Rome, and Halle. The last precedent occurred last Tuesday, with a deranged Medvedev who came to slam his racket against the green mat of the German tournament when he fell 3-1 in the second set. “To the garbage,” said the one from Moscow.
Interestingly, all these defeats have a common denominator: they occurred against rivals who were outside the top-20 of the ranking. His executioners were Lajovic (27th), Garín (25th), Karatsev (27th) and Struff (45th), with these classifications at the time of the match, so none of them were top-level tennis players. But not all hope is lost for Medvedev in the face of Wimbledon, your next challenge, since in two tournaments after those defeats he took very positive results: champion in Marseille (his only title in 2021) and quarterfinals at Roland Garros (his best performance ever in Paris). This is Medvedev, pure anarchy …
