Medvedev ATP Plea: More Tournaments Needed?

Daniil Medvedev won his 22nd title on the ATP tour at the ATP tournament in Brisbane. So far so good. However, “Meddy” cannot get rid of one problem.

The good news first: Daniil Medvedev is back. 2025 didn’t go well at all from the former world number one’s point of view. He had slipped in the ranking to 18th place. Thanks to a good spurt at the end of the year, he is at least within sight of the top ten again.

Now “Meddy” has followed up on that and won the title straight away in Brisbane. And earned outsider chances for the Australian Open. As a reminder: 2025 was terrible, especially at the Grand Slam level. In Melbourne it was round 2, in Paris, Wimbledon and at the US Open it was already over at the start.

Will everything be better in 2026? Possibly. Particularly promising if Medvedev ends an extremely strange series. Because Medvedev has not yet won a tournament twice. No, not only never defended a title – also from a distance. A look at his tournament wins:

2018: Sydney, Winston-Salem, Tokyo
2019: Sofia, Cincinnati, St. Petersburg, Shanghai
2020: Paris, London
2021: Marseille, Mallorca, Toronto, US Open
2022: Los Cabos, Vienna
2023: Doha, Dubai, Miami, Rom
2025: Almaty
2026: Brisbane

Let’s take a look, says the ATP

Crazy, right? Accordingly, his cry for help: “Dear ATP Tour, can you add more cities? I’m running out of them…” The tour’s (amusing) answer: “We’ll see what we can do.”

The good thing for Medvedev, at least in the short term: Melbourne is not yet on his list of winners, so a triumph at the Australian Open would be possible in terms of statistics. Especially since the Rod Laver Arena is one of the man from Russia’s favorite places: he has already reached the final three times, but without success. Despite the chances: in 2021 he lost to Novak Djokovic in three sets, in 2022 he lost to Rafael Nadal after leading 2-0 in the set, and also to Jannik Sinner in 2024.

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