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Did Medvedev have a sixth sense about Turin streak?

The 28-year-old discusses his group rivals Sinner, Fritz and De Minaur

November 07, 2024

When Daniil Medvedev completed the 2018 season at a then career-high No. 17 within the PIF ATP Rankings, little did he know that he would proceed his climb and embark on a six-year streak competing on the prestigious Nitto ATP Finals.

Medvedev, who went 0-3 in his match debut in 2019 adopted by a title run in 2020, is a perennial risk to turn out to be the champion of champions in Turin. This 12 months isn’t any totally different.

However the six-year streak has caught even Medvedev without warning.

“Most likely in the event you requested me in 2018, after I was not there, you’d say, ‘Six occasions in a row I’m going to be there’, I’d like be, ‘Wow! How? You might want to win Masters 1000s, you could play good on the Slams, and at the moment I wasn’t doing it but, even when I used to be going up. So I’m fairly joyful about it,” Medvedev informed ATP Media. “Comfortable to be right here and looking out ahead.”

The 28-year-old mirrored on his 2024 season, throughout which he has tallied a 45-19 match document, labelling it as an “up and down” 12 months with “some positives and a few negatives”.

After lifting a career-best 5 titles in 2023, Medvedev is brief on time as he continues to hunt his first trophy of the season. The Australian Open and Indian Wells finalist is positioned within the Ilie Nastase Group alongside Jannik Sinner, Taylor Fritz and Alex de Minaur.

Medvedev and Fritz will kickstart the singles motion on Sunday in what can be simply their second Lexus ATP Head2Head assembly.

“With Taylor, it’s fairly loopy as a result of we’ve each been High 10 for like three years and we type of began to be on Tour on the similar time and we’ve solely performed one another one time, which is loopy,” mentioned Medvedev, who beat Fritz in Cincinnati in 2022.

After Medvedev gained his first six tour-level matches towards Sinner, the Italian has solid a significant turnaround within the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head collection, which now stands at 7-7. Medvedev and Sinner clashed 5 occasions this season (Sinner 4-1), together with at three of the majors.

“You might want to play an inch-perfect match to beat [Jannik],” Medvedev mentioned. “From begin to end, you could be there, you could make him drained bodily and work him out. If you’re not in a position to do it from the beginning, he will get management of the match and it’s robust to interrupt his rhythm. Very, very robust opponent, particularly right here in Italy.”

Boasting an 11-9 profession document on the season finale, Medvedev will look to achieve revenge on Nitto ATP Finals debutant De Minaur, who defeated the 20-time tour-level titlist at Roland Garros this 12 months.

“I’ve identified Alex for a very long time. For me, he was at all times a fantastic tennis participant,” Medvedev mentioned. “[Before], perhaps a bit an excessive amount of up and down, the place he may have some wonderful matches and even in the identical match — he may have some wonderful factors the place he runs from one aspect of the courtroom to a different one and makes a spotlight for the season. After which throughout the identical match, he would go somewhat bit down, make some errors, and this 12 months that was not the case.

“I really feel like that’s what made this season higher than his earlier ones — the consistency he was capable of finding all through the entire 12 months and all through the entire matches.”