Four months after his last success, in Vienna in October of last year when he beat Canadian Denis Shapovalov, Daniil Medvedev was reunited this Sunday with success.
The Russian defeated Italian Jannik Sinner 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 in the final of the Rotterdam tournament. A victory with which the tennis player is postulated as one of the great rivals to beat in 2023.
The Muscovite, who will return to the top ten of the ATP ranking this Monday as eighth ranked.
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He had to come back in two and a half hours to end the streak of his rival, who had nine wins in a row and who won the title in Montpellier a week ago.
Medvedev had never won a title in the first months of the year. He normally concentrates his best time in the second part of the season.
For the Russian tennis player, this is the sixteenth trophy of his career, the first so far in 2023.
