“Alcaraz is like Djokovic or Nadal, always a candidate for the title”

Number three in world tennis, the Russian Daniel Medvedevhe taught the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz and in Italian Jannik Sinner as the big favorite to win the Shanghai Masters, a tournament where he is the current champion and where he was eliminated today in the third round.

“If we talk about his state of form, at the moment Carlos is in, he is a player like Novak (Djokovic) or count Rafael Nadal) Before, every tournament he was the main candidate for the title, or one of the two main candidates with Novak,” the tennis player explained in a press conference after losing to the American. Sebastian Korda (7-6, 6-2).

In Sinner, Medvedev praised his ability to “adapt” on a physical level, as he demonstrated by defeating the Russian who was certain to be crowned champion of the recently held Beijing Open.

Medvedev, who won the last edition of the tournament, 2019 – the following was canceled as a result of the Chinese Government’s ‘zero covid’ policy – was “very disappointed” at his elimination and attributed his defeat to a better than expected performance from to Korda in the service.

“I doubt he’ll serve like that all the time (…). If he serves like that all the time, he’d win more times. That’s tennis, he’s had a good day,” explained the Russian, who finished . broke his racket after falling in the tiebreaker in the first set and also showed his frustration at the end of the second set.

It should be noted that this is the first victory for ‘Sebi’ against a ‘top 5’, in a season also marked by injuries for the American.

In any case, Medvedev assured that the elimination for the first time in Shanghai will allow him to rest, with the aim of feeling “100%” for the final events of the year.