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5) Medvedev To Make Mark?: A year ago, Medvedev extended an early-season winning streak to 19 matches by reaching his maiden Indian Wells final. This year, the World No. 4’s February was marred by struggles with a foot injury, but he returned with a semi-final run in Dubai last week and will hope to find his top level quickly as he chases his seventh Masters 1000 crown.

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Medvedev hopes change is good in Indian Wells

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Returning finalist owns a 9-2 record this season
March 07, 2024
Daniil Medvedev reached his first Indian Wells final last season. Matthew Stockman/Getty Images
Daniil Medvedev reached his first Indian Wells final last season.
By ATP Staff
Fortunes can change in the blink of an eye on the ATP Tour. Daniil Medvedev witnessed that first-hand last season, when he dropped out of the Top 10 of the PIF ATP Rankings only to catch fire and win three tournaments leading up to the 2023 BNP Paribas Open.

This year, the returning finalist has reached the Australian Open final and the Dubai semis in his two tour-level appearances.

“I had a lot of confidence last year. I do have some this year, maybe a bit less because last year I won three tournaments before this one," he said Wednesday in his pre-tournament press conference.

Medvedev progressed to last year's final despite his distaste for the slow desert conditions. One year later, he enters with a rosier view of Tennis Paradise.

"I'm definitely not going to blame the court for anything that I do, which means play bad or good, or lose or win," he said. "I'm going to enjoy it here. I love it here. I’m going to enjoy my time here and try to prolong it as much as possible."

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Medvedev's acceptance of the court conditions is just another small change, one of the many ever-shifting tides on the ATP Tour. Now a relative veteran at 28, he has learned to love that aspect of life as a professional tennis player — even if it can be challenging.

"It's not easy because when sometimes it's a bad moment and you change for a good one, you feel great," he explained. "But then when the good one changes for the bad, you hate it. It’s going to sound crazy, but it happens to me for different reasons. It can be body-wise, it can be sometimes tennis-wise.

"Like last year, when I dropped out of the Top 10, I came to Rotterdam and I was feeling bad. And I started in a way questioning myself, OK, maybe I lost something in my game and am I going to be able to find it back? We always put a lot of questions in our head. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad.

"That's what I learned to love about tennis, is that it's changing. For example, two weeks ago I was hurting a little, my body here and there. Now it changed and I feel well here in Indian Wells and I have more motivation and attention to what I can do on a tennis court… So yeah, I learned to enjoy the changes and even if I don't enjoy them, I try to think about better days ahead."

In the short term, what lies ahead for Medvedev is an opening Indian Wells matchup against Flavio Cobolli or Roberto Carballes Baena. If he is to change his 2023 result in the desert for the better, there is only one way to do it: by winning his first Indian Wells title and his seventh ATP Masters 1000 crown next Sunday.

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Trochę mam problem z tym Daniłem. Pierdyliard wygranych nabitych na hard, na pierwszy rzut oka chore staty w ostatnim roku, a po IW/Miami może się okazać, że będzie rok bez tytułu. Niby 2 finały WS, ale generalnie nie potrafi tego przekuć w coś ekstra. Jedno Miami na tle tych wszystkich statystyk wygląda bardzo biednie.

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Medvedev marches on at Indian Wells

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Daniil Medvedev has won all hard-court ATP Masters 1000 events except for one: the BNP Paribas Open. Will this be the year he lifts the trophy at Indian Wells?

The No. 4 player in the PIF ATP Rankings made a good start towards that goal Saturday when he moved past Spaniard Roberto Carballes Baena 6-2, 6-3 in one hour and 28 minutes.

"It was not an easy match. The rallies are slow here so 1:30 for 6-2, 6-3 is pretty long. But I know how to play well in these long rallies," Medvedev said. "I think I had the match under control. He managed to play one very good game at 4-2, but I was like, 'Okay, I just have to continue', and I managed to find a way."


Medvedev now leads the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head series 3-0 and has never lost a set against Carballes Baena. He will try to overcome a 1-2 deficit against Sebastian Korda in the third round.

"He can play really good and I know that Indian Wells is a tough tournament," Medvedev said. "Starting from the first tournament you have to play your best and the past two matches I lost against Seb, so I'm going to try my best to try to beat him this time."

The final match of the evening was straightforward for the first hour, with the former World No. 1 cruising to a set-and-a-break advantage. But what seemed a routine night at the office turned into an interesting one for Medvedev.

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Carballes Baena broke back in the second set and a light began flickering atop the stadium, impeding Medvedev’s ability to return. That caused a delay in the action.

It proved a reset for the defending finalist, who immediately broke upon the resumption of play and served out the match.

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Medvedev creates 22 break points in three-set win vs. Korda

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Fourth seed faces Dimitrov for QF place
March 12, 2024
Daniil Medvedev converts on nine of 22 break points against Sebastian Korda.Peter Staples/ATP Tour
Daniil Medvedev converts on nine of 22 break points against Sebastian Korda.
By ATP Staff
After a combined 16 breaks of serve in their Monday evening match at the BNP Paribas Open, Daniil Medvedev broke through for a 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 victory in Indian Wells.

Medvedev created 22 break points — a personal high in a best-of-three match — and converted nine of them to defeat the American home favourite. A back-and-forth final set included five consecutive breaks from 1-1, with Medvedev breaking the pattern to hold for 5-3.

In a match that served up magic and madness in equal parts, the returning finalist rode the waves and emerged with a victory that levelled the pair's Lexus ATP Head2Head series at 2-2. Korda had twice beaten him last season, at the Australian Open and in Shanghai, both in straight sets.

If Medvedev can go one step further and win the Indian Wells title this year, he will complete the box set of trophies across all six hard-court ATP Masters 1000s (Miami 2023, Canada 2021, Cincinnati 2019, Shanghai 2019, Paris 2020). Medvedev can also rise up to No. 2 in the PIF ATP Rankings if he wins the title and both Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz fail to reach the semi-finals.

The 28-year-old overcame a frustrating serving night that included 10 double faults to advance against Korda. Though he came to net half as often as his opponent, he was more efficient in the frontcourt, winning 14 of his 21 net points (67%), according to Infosys ATP Stats. Korda won 25 of his 40 approaches (63%).

Next up for Medvedev is a fourth-round showdown with 13th seed Grigor Dimitrov, who advanced on Monday with a 6-3, 6-3 win against Adrian Mannarino.

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