Daniił Miedwiediew

[Barty]

Eighth seed Daniil Medvedev, who captured his first two titles earlier this year in Sydney and Winston-Salem, saved four of five break points to beat Kazakh Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3, 6-4 in one hour, 23 minutes. The home favourite will face top seed Dominic Thiem or German Jan-Lennard Struff.

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[Barty]

Sankt Petersburg QF:

30 Denis Shapovalov 1295
31 Daniił Miedwiediew 1287
32 Adrian Mannarino 1285

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[Lleyton]

[Damian]

24.09.2018

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 32

[Lleyton]

II runda Tokio 2018:

28 Gilles Simon 1345
29 Daniłl Miedwiediew 1307
30 Denis Shapovalov 1295

[Damian]

While Nishikori had little difficulty moving through, No. 4 seed Diego Schwartzman's run was put to an end in the first round. World No. 32 Daniil Medvedev, who had to go through qualifying, upset the Argentine 6-4, 6-4 in one hour and 28 minutes.

The Russian continues the best season of his young career, in which he has won his first two tour-level titles (Sydney and Winston-Salem). He will next face another in-form player in Slovakian Martin Klizan, who defeated American Steve Johnson 6-4, 7-6(4). The World No. 51 Klizan, who was No. 127 just more than two months ago, triumphed at the Generali Open in Kitzbuhel and finished runner-up to Dominic Thiem at the St. Petersburg Open.

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[Lleyton]

[Damian]

Tokio QF:

27 Fernando Verdasco 1420
28 Daniił Miedwiediew 1352
29 Gilles Simon 1345

[Damian]

He wasn’t the only Canadian to advance in Tokyo on Wednesday, as No. 6 seed Milos Raonic beat home favourite Yosuke Watanuki 6-3, 7-6(2) in one hour and 24 minutes.

The home favourite Watanuki, a qualifier, claimed his first ATP World Tour win against Robin Haase in the first round. But Raonic was too strong on serve, losing just eight service points in the match. The three-time finalist will continue pursuing his maiden title here when he plays in-form Daniil Medvedev.

The Russian ousted fellow qualifier Martin Klizan 6-4, 6-3 in one hour and 23 minutes. Medvedev won his first two tour-level titles this season, triumphing in Sydney and Winston-Salem.

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[Barty]

Medvedev Focuses On Continuing His Rise

Spoiler:

Russian draws upon the experience of compatriots to develop

This time last year, Daniil Medvedev was in the middle of an eight-match losing streak. The Russian had steadily improved — from the end of the 2015 season until last July, he climbed from No. 331 to No. 49 in the ATP Rankings. But the 6’6” right-hander had not quite found the consistency he was looking for.

So could Medvedev have envisioned that just 12 months later, he’d own his first two ATP World Tour titles and be moving to the verge of the Top 30 this week at the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships 2018?

“Probably not, but at the same time I was working hard for it,” Medvedev said. “I was expecting to play better, but I was not maybe expecting to go up that fast as I did in the second part of the season. But it means I’ve been doing a good job and I will continue doing it."


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It’s clear that Medvedev is now a force to be reckoned with on the ATP World Tour. Last year, the Monte-Carlo resident qualified for the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals, impressively advancing to the semi-finals. But in 2018, he has stepped it up another notch by already tallying 33 tour-level match wins.

Before the season, the Russian owned just 29 for his entire career. That’s not bad for a player who up until a couple of years ago didn’t entirely believe he could make it in professional tennis.

“I think the real point was the year when I got to the Top 100 [in 2016]. I started the year like 330 which is okay, that’s not that bad. But at the same time you don’t make a living, you only lose money on tennis if you are No. 330. So at that moment I was still thinking that it would be really tough to be a real professional tennis player in the Top 100,” Medvedev said. “Then I just made a great year playing great tennis and I finished the year in 99th spot. That’s when I understood that I could get in some ATP tournaments and that I was on the way up.”

Medvedev didn’t always do things the right way. He didn’t necessarily eat the right foods, nor did he get the most out of his practices. But that doesn’t mean that the potential wasn’t always there to break through.

“I was always dreaming big, because I knew I had some talent or something in me to play good, because I was not bad in juniors and compared to other guys I was zero professional,” Medvedev said. “I was not thinking good on court and I still managed to be in the Top 20 in juniors. At one moment when I started to take tennis more seriously, I knew I would have a chance, if I did everything right, to be where I am right now.”

Many of today’s players are defined by certain characteristics on the court. Juan Martin del Potro’s rocket forehand, Alexander Zverev’s impenetrable backhand and John Isner’s thunderous serve stick out. But Medvedev is paving his path toward the top of the sport in a different way.

“I have an all-around game. I don’t have some weak spots that you can attack and you can definitely beat me,” Medvedev said. “I have a good serve. It’s not the best on the Tour, but it’s helping me to stay alive in the match sometimes. I can return good. For my height, I think I can run quite well. So as I said, I think it’s just the all-around game that sometimes the guy doesn’t know what to do against me to win.”

And that feeling of uncertainty Medvedev can give opponents has helped put him in a position where he isn’t a heavy underdog against some of the world’s best, whereas that might not have been the case last year. When the Russian faces former World No. 3 Milos Raonic in Friday’s quarter-finals in Tokyo, he will be in with a fighting chance.

“No matter who I play, I will try to win every match I play because that’s how you get points to go higher in the rankings. It doesn’t change any vision I have,” Medvedev said. “Milos is a tough opponent I think for everybody. Even if you’re Roger [Federer], it’s not easy to play Milos.”

While Medvedev is only 22, it’s been a long journey. At eight years old, he remembers watching compatriot Marat Safin win the 2005 Australian Open on television. That was somebody to idolise, and it doesn’t feel that long ago.

“Suddenly I am [near the] Top 30 now. I haven’t won Australia yet but I am here. I can talk to him. He knows who I am and all the other guys are our coaches on the Davis Cup team,” said Medvedev referencing the likes of former World No. 3 Nikolay Davydenko. “This is quite cool because I couldn’t imagine it when I was younger. I was just dreaming about it.”

Medvedev is living in the moment. He hasn’t thought back to those moments as a child when he dreamt of being where he is today.

“If I did, I would probably be surprised,” Medvedev said. “If I would know it back then, I would not believe it. But, honestly, I don’t look back. Whatever happened is in the past. I’m just looking for the future.”

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[arti]

[DUN I LOVE]

Obok siebie w rankingu są Shapo z Daniiłem. Rosjanin zagra więcej jutro o przynajmniej 1 miejsce wyżej w poniedziałkowym notowaniu rankingu ATP.

[Damian]

Tokio F:

[quote]26 Roberto Bautista Agut 1570
27 Daniił Miedwiediew 1562
28 Nikoloz Basilashvili 1437

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Medvedev First Qualifier To Reach Tokyo Final Since 2002

Spoiler:

Russian to face Nishikori in Sunday's final
Russian Daniil Medvedev became the first qualifier to make the final in Tokyo in 16 years on Saturday, as the 22-year-old ousted #NextGenATP Canadian Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 6-3 to reach the championship match at the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships 2018.

"I like to play qualies if I don’t lose them," Medvedev said, smiling. " "It helps me a lot if I manage to go through because here in the final round of qualifying, I almost lost to a great player, my friend from Belarus. And if I lost, I wouldn’t be in the final. Finally it helped me to get into the tournament and be ready for the main draw."

Medvedev remains undefeated in tour-level semi-finals in 2018, moving to 3-0. In Sydney and Winston-Salem, the 2017 Next Gen ATP Finals qualifier went on to capture his first two ATP World Tour titles. If he can defeat two-time champion Kei Nishikori in Sunday’s final, Medvedev is projected to become the No. 1 Russian in the ATP Rankings for the first time. In St. Petersburg, Medvedev was asked about the possibility of passing compatriot Karen Khachanov this year.

"I said in one interview, kind of as a joke, my goal is to go higher than Karen at the end of the year. I was a bit far in the points in this moment. I’m only one win away from beating him at this moment, so it’s just a good feeling when we are two friends like this and we are at the top going up and we can compete like this," Medvedev said. "We don’t talk about competitive stuff, but I know he doesn’t want me to pass him."


This week last year, Medvedev was World No. 64, and mired in the middle of an eight-match losing streak. But he has come on strong, with his only set lost this week coming in the second round of qualifying. The last qualifier to reach the final in Japan was Magnus Norman (l. to Carlsen) in 2002.

And not only that, but Medvedev has already won a title as a qualifier this year, doing so in Sydney. There have been a record seven qualifiers to triumph on the ATP World Tour in 2018, and he is now the highest-ranked of the pack at No. 32. If the Monaco resident is victorious in straight sets on Sunday, it will be the second time this year he has lifted a trophy without dropping a set in the main draw (also Winston-Salem).



Entering the semi-final, Shapovalov had won both of the pair's FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings. But if Medvedev maintains the form he displayed in his 63-minute victory against the Canadian, there's no reason to think he can't come out on top in the final. The Russian saved the only break point he faced, and has now held serve in 36 of 40 service games this week. Medvedev did especially well to limit Shapovalov to just 63 per cent of first-serve points won, breaking in the teenager's second service game and never looking back.

"Denis is a great player and sometimes in tennis, nobody can win all the tournaments. Sometimes you lose to someone, sometimes you beat somebody," Medvedev said. "I managed to show a really good level today, good serve. I managed to break him, so I came out on top."

It was still a strong week for Shapovalov, who was trying to make his maiden tour-level final and become the first teenager to compete for the championship in Tokyo since Michael Chang (19) 27 years ago. The 19-year-old left-hander is still in strong position to qualify for the Next Gen ATP Finals for the second year in a row, sitting at No. 3 in the ATP Race To Milan.

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[Damian]

[DUN I LOVE]

35-20 jest Miedwiediew w tym sezonie. Bardzo dobry rok, przełomowy.

[Damian]

ATP Tokio: Kei Nishikori zagra o tytuł w ojczyźnie. Danił Miedwiediew - od kwalifikacji do finału

Spoiler:

Kei Nishikori w dwóch setach pokonał Richarda Gasqueta w półfinale rozgrywanego na kortach twardych w hali turnieju ATP World Tour 500 w Tokio. W finale Japończyk zagra z Daniłem Miedwiediewem, który wygrał z Denisem Shapovalovem.
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Przed startem turnieju ATP w Tokio Kei Nishikori powiedział, że wrócił do formy. W trakcie imprezy w stolicy Japonii udowadnia prawdziwość tych słów. Reprezentant gospodarzy spisuje się bowiem doskonale i bez straty seta awansował do finału. W sobotnim półfinale pokonał 7:6(2), 6:1 także bardzo dobrze dysponowanego w tym tygodniu Richarda Gasqueta.
Dla Nishikoriego to 24. finał w głównym cyklu w karierze, w tym drugi w obecnym sezonie (w kwietniu zagrał o tytuł w Monte Carlo). Jeśli wygra, zdobędzie 12. mistrzostwo, ale pierwsze od lutego 2016 roku, gdy zwyciężył w Memphis. Po triumf w Tokio może sięgnąć po raz trzeci. Poprzednio zawody w swojej ojczyźnie wygrał w sezonach 2012 i 2014.

Finałowym rywalem Japończyka będzie Danił Miedwiediew. 22-letni Rosjanin, który do głównej drabinki Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships przebijał się przez eliminacje, w pojedynku młodych-zdolnych wygrał 6:3, 6:3 z Denisem Shapovalovem, 19-latkiem. Tym samym moskwianin został pierwszym kwalifikantem w finale turnieju w Tokio od 2002 roku, kiedy to w decydującym spotkaniu wystąpił Magnus Norman.

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- Denis jest świetnym tenisistą, ale w tenisie nie możesz wygrywać wszystkiego. Czasami przegrasz z kimś, kogo zwykle ogrywasz - mówił Miedwiediew, który przegrał dwa poprzednie spotkania z Shapovalovem. - Udało mi się pokazać grę na dobrym poziomie. Świetnie serwowałem i byłem w stanie go przełamywać - dodał.

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Wygrywając, Rosjanin awansował do swojego czwartego finału rangi ATP World Tour. W tym roku zdobył dwa tytuły. W styczniu zwyciężył w Sydney, gdzie także rozpoczynał od kwalifikacji, a w sierpniu okazał się najlepszy w Winston-Salem.

Niedzielny mecz (początek o godz. 8:30 czasu polskiego) będzie drugim pomiędzy Nishikorim a Miedwiediewem. 18 kwietnia zmierzyli się w II rundzie turnieju w Monte Carlo i wówczas Japończyk wygrał 7:5, 6:2.

Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships, Tokio (Japonia)
ATP World Tour 500, kort twardy w hali, pula nagród 1,781 mln dolarów
sobota, 6 października

półfinał gry pojedynczej:

Kei Nishikori (Japonia, 3) - Richard Gasquet (Francja, 7:6(2), 6:1
Danił Miedwiediew (Rosja, Q) - Denis Shapovalov (Kanada) 6:3, 6:3

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[Barty]

Medvedev First Qualifier To Reach Tokyo Final Since 2002

Spoiler:

ATP Staff
Russian to face Nishikori in Sunday's final
Russian Daniil Medvedev became the first qualifier to make the final in Tokyo in 16 years on Saturday, as the 22-year-old ousted #NextGenATP Canadian Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 6-3 to reach the championship match at the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships 2018.

"I like to play qualies if I don’t lose them," Medvedev said, smiling. " "It helps me a lot if I manage to go through because here in the final round of qualifying, I almost lost to a great player, my friend from Belarus. And if I lost, I wouldn’t be in the final. Finally it helped me to get into the tournament and be ready for the main draw."

Medvedev remains undefeated in tour-level semi-finals in 2018, moving to 3-0. In Sydney and Winston-Salem, the 2017 Next Gen ATP Finals qualifier went on to capture his first two ATP World Tour titles. If he can defeat two-time champion Kei Nishikori in Sunday’s final, Medvedev is projected to become the No. 1 Russian in the ATP Rankings for the first time. In St. Petersburg, Medvedev was asked about the possibility of passing compatriot Karen Khachanov this year.

"I said in one interview, kind of as a joke, my goal is to go higher than Karen at the end of the year. I was a bit far in the points in this moment. I’m only one win away from beating him at this moment, so it’s just a good feeling when we are two friends like this and we are at the top going up and we can compete like this," Medvedev said. "We don’t talk about competitive stuff, but I know he doesn’t want me to pass him."


This week last year, Medvedev was World No. 64, and mired in the middle of an eight-match losing streak. But he has come on strong, with his only set lost this week coming in the second round of qualifying. The last qualifier to reach the final in Japan was Magnus Norman (l. to Carlsen) in 2002.

And not only that, but Medvedev has already won a title as a qualifier this year, doing so in Sydney. There have been a record seven qualifiers to triumph on the ATP World Tour in 2018, and he is now the highest-ranked of the pack at No. 32. If the Monaco resident is victorious in straight sets on Sunday, it will be the second time this year he has lifted a trophy without dropping a set in the main draw (also Winston-Salem).



Entering the semi-final, Shapovalov had won both of the pair's FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings. But if Medvedev maintains the form he displayed in his 63-minute victory against the Canadian, there's no reason to think he can't come out on top in the final. The Russian saved the only break point he faced, and has now held serve in 36 of 40 service games this week. Medvedev did especially well to limit Shapovalov to just 63 per cent of first-serve points won, breaking in the teenager's second service game and never looking back.

"Denis is a great player and sometimes in tennis, nobody can win all the tournaments. Sometimes you lose to someone, sometimes you beat somebody," Medvedev said. "I managed to show a really good level today, good serve. I managed to break him, so I came out on top."

It was still a strong week for Shapovalov, who was trying to make his maiden tour-level final and become the first teenager to compete for the championship in Tokyo since Michael Chang (19) 27 years ago. The 19-year-old left-hander is still in strong position to qualify for the Next Gen ATP Finals for the second year in a row, sitting at No. 3 in the ATP Race To Milan.

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