Daniil Medvedev Gives an in-Depth Assessment of His Confidence Ahead of Wimbledon

Daniil Medvedev finished as the runner-up at the Terra Wortmann Open ahead of the Wimbledon Championship.

Daniil Medvedev Gives an in-Depth Assessment of His Confidence Ahead of Wimbledon

Daniil Medvedev (via X/The Tennis Letter)

Daniil Medvedev reached his first final in almost 15 months at the Terra Wortmann Open but failed to secure the title. The Russian star sees his run at the tournament as a success after a long, rough patch in his career that saw him drop out of the top 10 in the ATP rankings for the first time in years.

Medvedev ended his clay-court campaign with a significant blow after losing to Cameron Norrie in the opening round of the Roland Garros. The defeat came just days after the former US Open champion had bragged that he was beginning to find his best form on the surface. Putting it behind, he kicked off his grass-court campaign at the Libema Open.

There, he secured just one win before losing to Reilly Opelka in the second round. It was at the Terra Wortmann Open in Halle that the former World No.1 finally found his best form, winning his first three matches without dropping a set. He then faced Alexander Zverev in the semi-final and beat the German 7-6 (3), 6(1)-7, 6-4.

The win was his first Top 3 win in almost a year. He was expected to claim the title having beaten Alexander Bublik in their last six meetings on tour, but the Russian No.1 shockingly fell to the Kazakhstan star 3-6, 6(4)-7 in the final. It was his sixth consecutive final loss on tour. Meanwhile, Bublik became the third player to win the title twice after Roger Federer and Yevgeny Kafelnikov.

Ahead of the Wimbledon Championship, which begins on June 30, Medvedev revealed to Bolshe! via Championat that his confidence level is 90 percent. The Russian added that he feels great after his first training session at the All England Club:

To be honest, I would say probably 90%, because the tournament in Halle, apart from the final, was ideal, and the final was not bad either. Sasha [Bublik] played well…Today I trained for one day at Wimbledon. I feel great, I play well, so I hope that I will be able to continue to show the game in Halle at Wimbledon.

Medvedev is no stranger to displaying sublime form at Wimbledon. The 29-year-old defeated Jannik Sinner in the quarter-finals last year before losing to the eventual champion Carlos Alcaraz in the last four.

Daniil Medvedev says he has changed his playing technique to fit the grass-court

Daniil Medvedev is known as the hard-court specialist and has often referred to himself as such. The Russian star has won 20 career titles, 18 of them have come on hard courts, while one came at the Italian Open and the other on grass in Mallorca. However, after his run at the Terra Wortmann Open, he believes he has found his best technique on grass.

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Daniil Medvedev (Image via X/Meddy Family)

The former World No.1 revealed during the aforementioned interview that he has formed the right style of play to fit the surface:

The technique changes, but not much, because we all have it already formed anyway. On grass there are simply shots when, if you are hit hard in the back, you have to make a shorter swing, meet the ball faster. That is, I do not consciously change the technique…Therefore, by the way, in a sense, it seems to me that I have the cleanest technique on grass.

Medvedev has never gone past the semi-finals of Wimbledon in his career. He has struggled on the surface on a few occasions previously, but this season, after competing in two grass-court tournaments, he will aim to give his best.

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