Despite this Wednesday’s loss to quarterfinals of Indian WellsThe Spanish Alexander Davidovich He left the tournament in the California desert with “very good” feelings and was satisfied with the high quality of tennis he had shown.
“I’m leaving happy, excited and looking forward to Miami. And I bring the level I gave here”, he told the media in Spanish already thinking about the next Masters 1000, which starts in Florida next week.
Davidovich fell in the Indian Wells quarterfinals to Russian Daniil Medvedev, extending his good start to 2023 with a 6-3, 7-5 win in one hour and 46 minutes.
Champion of three consecutive tournaments this year (Rotterdam, Doha and Dubai), Medvedev has won 18 matches in a row, beating the man from Malaga in the first set and being more successful and accurate in the key moments of the more equal second round.
“In the end you can see his solidity on the track“, admitted a Davidovich who, despite the defeat, got a great victory from Indian Wells: his rise to the 25th place in the world ranking, the best record of his career so far.
Davidovich, 23, didn’t want to make “excuses” for his loss – though he hinted that the wind made the match on center court go into “very unpleasant” sections – and pointed out that it was “from less to more” against the Russian.
“In the end I was there with ‘break’ balls and I didn’t have a chance. But hey, I’m happy with all the levels I gave in the tournament and in today’s game (…). Both he and I had ‘break’ balls, he took his chance and I didn’t (…). The second set is there. It might have been decanted for me too,” he argued.
“In the end, the second set was ‘break’, not too much. It was ‘break’, he took it and that was it”, he added.
Davidovich entered the first set relatively cold (12 unforced errors against just 4 from his rival) and was unable to capitalize on any of the 6 service break opportunities he had in the second set.
“If you want to be one of the ‘tops’, you need to study these people very well, what they do. No other. Today I lost but today I learned a good lesson how this guy won 17 games in a row (now 18). There is nothing else to keep practicing and keep learning how to keep improving,” he said.
“Now I want to go to Miami and play at the same level, win or lose”hill
Source: La Verdad
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