“Last season showed me and showed everyone that I can win any tournament on clay. When you win a tournament like Rome, you can win the others too. It gave me a lot of confidence. » Daniil Medvedev is no longer angry with clay, he announced at a press conference after his victory over Gaël Monfils in the second round of the Masters 1000 in Monte-Carlo.
After hating ocher in his early years, the Russian now says he is capable of winning Roland-Garros where he has never made it past the quarter-finals. “It’s in three winning sets, but I have experience winning in three, four or five. Roland-Garros and Rome are a bit the same. Of course, it’s a Grand Slam, so it’s harder. I don’t like clay as much as hard courts, but now I accept it and try to find solutions. »
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“If you like being in the mud like a dog…”
Daniil Medvedev took a few years to tame clay. In 2021, he begged a referee to disqualify him at the Masters 1000 in Rome, already. he will go further. “It’s a rotten surface, how could I not swear?” If you like being in the mud like a dog, good for you”. Ironically, it was in the Italian capital that he won his first clay court title, in 2023.
2024-04-11 07:18:43
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