Daniil Medvedev is not happy and he is showing it. On Sunday, March 12, the Russian defeated Ilya Ivashka in the second round of Indian Wells (6-2, 3-6, 6-1), thus taking 16th place.to consecutive success. Far from an obvious victory for the world number 6, who lost his nerves during the match. At the end of the second set, which his opponent won, Medvedev reported to the referee that he was annoyed by the slowness imposed by the tournament court surface: “I’ll go to the bathroom and be that slow. Not hard. You’ll have to wait a bit, maybe 20 minutes. The tournament paper says that the surface is hard, but this is not true, it is a lie. I can not accept“
After the meeting, Daniil Medvedev, far from calming down, added another layer at a press conference: “I feel like you should try your best here at Indian Wells and hope it goes well. I’ve seen a lot of games where players lost 6-0 or 6-1 sets when they weren’t playing that badly. It’s hard to make a point here, so it depends on who wins the 25-move rally, unless you expect the opponent’s fault.A feeling that the Russian himself felt during the match: “In the second set, I didn’t feel like I was playing that badly, but you can shoot ten good shots in a rally and that’s not enough. In the third set, I was ahead by a large margin, I could have finished the set 6-0, I didn’t and I said to myself that he could come back any moment, this does not happen on other hard courts. . You really needed to focus.“
In the next round, Daniil Medvedev will go up against a big piece in the person of German Alexander Zverev. Despite his dislike for the Indian Wells court, the Russian is determined to give everything to go to the end of the California tournament: “I want to get the best result here. I truly believe that I can win here against all odds. I have to convince myself that I can win anywhere. But my biggest problem here is that when I have a bad day, it’s much harder to recover from than elsewhere.“
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Source: Programme Television
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