French Open 2021: “History Made” Daniil Medvedev goes crazy on Twitter after R1 win
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Daniil Medvedev
Daniil Medvedev became the first player since 2005 outside the “Big 4” to break into the Top-2 when he became the World No. 2 in the last week of March, 2021. Bu there was a bad record on his name as he couldn’t win a single match at French Open till Roland Garros 2021.
The famed Big 4 which consists of modern greats Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray who have dominated nearly 2 decades in the game of tennis and have shared the World No. 1 position among themselves.
Medvedev had been in amazing form after the resumption of ATP Tour post the Pandemic break reaching the semi-finals of the 2020 US Open, winning the 2020 Paris Masters and followed it with winning the ATP Finals to conclude a highly successful 2020. He also reached the finals at the 2021 Australian Open and with his title at 2021 Marseille Open he ascended to the 2nd rank.
Daniil Medvedev ends his losing streak at Roland Garros
While Medvedev was successful on the Hardcourts, he had been suffering terribly on the Clay surface. 3 out of his last 5 seasons on Clay have seen him having more defeats than wins while he dominated on Hard courts.
He was defeated in the first round of the French Open for 4 consecutive seasons from 2017 to 2020. His record did not improve in other tournaments on Clay also and it started becoming a huge criticism for the Russian who took it sportingly and dealt with it jokingly about how he wishes to win only 1 match on Clay at every tournament.
Medvedev was seeded 2nd at the French Open 2021 and had all eyes on him as he took the court for his 1st round match against Alexander Bublik. However, the luck was with the Russian this time as he registered his first ever win at the Roland Garros after 4 failed attempts winning 6-3, 6-3, 7-5.
Medvedev was very active on his twitter account digging out his old tweets related to his French Open losses. He found his tweet from December, 2020 where he talked about winning first round match at the French Open and replied to his own tweet after his win.
In a twitter reply to ATP Tour asking about the best moment at the Roland Garros, a happy Medvedev tweeted “So far? Actually hearing my name together with game, set and match“.
Daniil Medvedev to play against American Tommy Paul in Round 2
Daniil Medvedev will play for the 1st time in the 2nd round of the French Open, takes his season Clay record to 2-2 after registering his first Clay win at the Madrid Masters 2021.
In the second round he will be up against American Tommy Paul who won his 1st round in a crunch 3.5 hour encounter winning the match 6-2, 6-4, 4-6, 4-6, 10-8 in what became the first extended 5th set at this year’s Roland Garros. This will his first meeting with Medvedev and would fancy his chance to register his 2nd Top-10 win and first of 2021 season knowing Daniil’s struggles.
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Sarthak Shitole
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