Medvedev, joker of the dawn: “With you, I would have gone to sleep now”

“As for you, I should have gone to sleep now,” he said. Daniel Medvedev in front of the public and journalists after winning Emil Ruusuvuori after a 4h.21′ marathon that lasted until 3h.35′ in the Australian morning: 3-6, 6-7 (1), 6-4, 7-6 (1) and 6-0 to meet in the 3rd round with Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime.

“If I was a fan, maybe I would have gone home and watched the game on TV. I watched 30 minutes and I would have gone to sleep. So I thank them from the bottom of my heart for staying, they are “You are very strong,” added the player of Russian tennis, who knew he had work ahead of him the moment he left the center court of Melbourne Park.

“I hope I can sleep at half past six,” Medvedev calculated. “If I don’t go to the physiotherapist, I don’t think I’ll make it out for two days, so now I’m going to see him and then see how much sleep I can get. around 12 noon and exercise in the morning. It can be difficult , but I will try to win and give everything,” explained the Russian, double finalist of Australian Openin 2021 and 2022.

Medvedev admitted that he started playing better once he found the right racket for his feelings, after losing the first two sets. “Then I changed rackets. Sometimes it’s something you think about, but in the end I found one that I felt I played better. I stayed with that racket. I started it at the beginning of the third set and continued with it until the end. end of the game,” said the Russian.

Medvedev did not enter the court in the best of thoughts, it was late, around 11 in the evening, after the previous match between Elena Rybakina and Anna Blinkova It was also very long.

“It wasn’t easy to start the match. In the first set, I lost a lot, I lost everywhere. It’s very difficult because in tennis you don’t know when you should eat or warm up. When I came to the court, “He was more prepared from the beginning and managed to be very tough, but I am very happy with the victory,” concluded Medvedev.