Daniił Miedwiediew

[Kamileki]

Zworek dalej ma więcej, a jest rok młodszy.

Prawda, ale przed rozpoczęciem sezonu 2019 większość ludzi złapałaby się za głowę gdyby im ktoś powiedział, że Daniił (16 miejsce na koniec 2018 i 3 kurniczki na koncie) zbliży się ogromnie do osiągnięć Zworka przez te 2 lata.

[DUN I LOVE]

Ja to jeszcze bardziej bym się złapał za głowę, gdyby mi ktoś powiedział, że ten niemiecki idiota po WTF18 zanotuje puste przeloty przez co najmniej kolejne 2 lata. Brak słów.

[Damian]

Medvedev Ends Herbert’s Run, Earns 10th Title

Spoiler:

Russian lifts 10th ATP Tour title
Daniil Medvedev celebrated his coming rise to World No. 2 one day early Sunday with a 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-4 victory against Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the Open 13 Provence final.

The Russian fired 13 aces and saved four of the five break points he faced to lift the trophy after two hours and 11 minutes. Medvedev will overtake Rafael Nadal on Monday to become the first player outside of the Big Four to occupy the No. 2 position in the FedEx ATP Rankings since Lleyton Hewitt in July 2005.

“I am really happy,” said Medvedev. “I knew that I would become No. 2 no matter what on Monday… It is always better when you step up the Rankings when you do something great. I know that winning here didn’t give me the points to become No. 2, but it is great for the self-esteem that just before becoming No. 2 on Monday, I win a tournament.”

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This is Medvedev’s 10th tour-level triumph. The World No. 3 has claimed six of those trophies at indoor hard-court events, which includes the biggest title of his career at last year’s Nitto ATP Finals.

“I am really happy about the number 10. It gets me to two digits, something which I dreamt of when I was a kid,” said Medvedev. “I think it is already a great number, but I am going to try to work more and get some more… I really like to play on hard courts. I feel like that is where my game suits me the best. I feel like I know the solutions I have to find during the match and that is what I did today.”

<a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/dani ... ew'>Daniil Medvedev</a> owns a 2-1 ATP Head2Head record against <a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/pier ... rre-Hugues Herbert</a>.

Medvedev improved to 14-2 this year with his second win in three ATP Head2Head encounters against Herbert. Last month, the Moscow native won all four matches he played to lead Russia to the ATP Cup title (d. Italy) and he also reached his second Grand Slam final at the Australian Open (l. to Djokovic).

“Pierre-Hugues can play unbelievable tennis. I know what he is capable of,” said Medvedev. “I played a lot of tough matches with him, especially when I lost in the Roland Garros first round. Today was a tricky, tough match and I am really happy that I managed to be on top and get the win.”

As he has throughout the week, Herbert attempted to shorten rallies with regular net approaches. In the first set, Medvedev picked his targets well to extract volley errors and fire backhand passing shots. The top seed converted his first set point with another backhand winner down the line.


Medvedev served with power and benefitted from Herbert forehand errors to save three break points in the early stages of the second set. However, the Frenchman found his best level when he needed it most in the tie-break. From 2/4, the 29-year-old proved the more consistent player from the baseline and he also continued to charge the net to upset Medvedev’s rhythm, win five straight points and reach a third set.

In a tight third set, one loose service game decided the outcome of the final. Medvedev kept his returns low at 5-4 and capitalised on four net errors from his opponent to clinch the title.

<a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/pier ... rre-Hugues Herbert</a> was the only player to take a set off <a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/dani ... ew'>Daniil Medvedev</a> at the <a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/ ... view'>Open 13 Provence</a>.

Herbert was attempting to capture his first ATP Tour singles title in his fourth final. The Frenchman defeated three seeded players en route to the championship match: sixth seed Kei Nishikori, two-time defending champion Stefanos Tsitsipas and fourth seed Ugo Humbert.

“It has been an incredible week. I played five really high-level matches. This is what I am proud of,” said Herbert. “I lost to someone who was just better [for] the full match. I managed to hold on and have a chance to win in the third set, but he was just too good.”

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[Kamileki]

Ja to jeszcze bardziej bym się złapał za głowę, gdyby mi ktoś powiedział, że ten niemiecki idiota po WTF18 zanotuje puste przeloty przez co najmniej kolejne 2 lata. Brak słów.

Gość powinien orać konkretnie w tej żałosnej "erze" i wziąć ze 3 Szlemy w tych dwóch latach, a tymczasem cały świat żyje w chorej ułudzie, że umarlaki z tonami pudru są niezniszczalni.

[DUN I LOVE]

Nic tylko znicz postawić.

[Bombardiero]

Kto by pomyślał, że tak dobrze zapowiadający się młodzieniec nie tyle zatrzyma się w rozwoju, ale zacznie nawet notować swego rodzaju regres. Głowa, głowa i jeszcze raz głowa. Swoją drogą u Daniła też przydałoby się nad tym elementem popracować, bo tenisowo gość wymiata, ale niejednokrotnie brak cierpliwości go gubi.

[Kiefer]

Nie no dajcie spokój z tym Zworkiem, może miał potencjał na kogoś naprawdę dużego, ale to już dawno i nieprawda, ja wolę tenis Daniła.

[Damian]

Russian (Un)Orthodox: Medvedev Takes Own Path To No. 2

Spoiler:

First player not named Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Murray to occupy second spot in FedEx ATP Rankings since 2005
The picture that stayed with us was that of Daniil Medvedev, index finger to ear, inviting, no, urging the Arthur Ashe Stadium assemblage to shower him with boos. But by then, he’d already won them over, a brazenfaced upstart who, after pushing their buttons for days, had come this close to toppling Rafael Nadal in a five-set final.

When Nadal fell to the court, the 2019 US Open title finally secured, it wasn’t so much out of jubilation as it was pure exhaustion. Up two sets and a break, it looked like the Mallorcan would be back in Midtown at a decent hour, maybe settling into a celebratory plate of pasta y gambas. But it took everything he had and more to hold off a Medvedev comeback, eking out a 7-5, 6-3, 5-7, 4-6, 6-4 victory in just under five hours.

“The way that he fought, the way that he played, is a champion’s way,” Nadal told the gathered media that evening.

That ‘champion’s way’ has paid off for Medvedev. Today, the Russian leapfrogs Nadal to seize No. 2 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, becoming the first player not named Federer, Nadal, Djokovic or Murray to occupy that spot in more than a decade-and-a-half.

For good measure, Medvedev celebrated the milestone one day earlier by winning his 10th title at the Open 13 Provence in Marseille. “I am really happy," he said. “I knew that I would become No. 2... [but] it is always better when you step up the rankings when you do something great... it is great for the self-esteem that just before becoming No. 2 on Monday, I win a tournament.”

It’s a historic achievement, the breakup of a stranglehold that traced back to Lleyton Hewitt in July 2005. Did anyone, maybe not even Medvedev himself, truly see this coming? Didn’t tennis fans envision someone like Stan Wawrinka, Juan Martin del Potro, David Ferrer, Tomas Berdych or Dominic Thiem getting there first? All came close. But it took Medvedev to make it happen.

“He’s just so solid,” observed Novak Djokovic, who’s thrice been on the losing end against Medvedev, but who last Monday become the longest-reigning World No. 1 in FedEx ATP Rankings history [read immersive tribute]. “I heard Jim Courier calling him a master chess player because of the way he tactically positions himself on the court, and it’s true. He’s definitely a very smart tennis player.”

<a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/dani ... ew'>Daniil Medvedev</a>

Countryman Andrey Rublev said, “He reads the game really well and it’s amazing the patience he has to stay so long in the rallies, to not rush, to take his time, and these things are amazing because, in the end, these little details, they make him who he is. You need to be focused 100 per cent every point, because as soon as you relax or something, then he will use this opportunity.”

Has Medvedev now set a precedent? Will his ascension give belief to those who follow him?

Back at the 2019 US Open, New Yorkers were just as impressed by the first-time Slam finalist as Nadal, though it was perhaps Medvedev’s moxie, not his unorthodox game, that resonated most. In the third round, he had shown some stubbornness in his four-set dismissal of Feliciano Lopez, at one point snatching a towel from a ball kid a bit too hastily and, after a subsequent warning from the chair umpire, tossing his racquet. The fans, in turn, showed their disapproval with a chorus of boos.

Medvedev was all too happy to play the villain, telling fans, “Thank you all, guys, because your energy tonight gave me the win. If you were not here, guys, I would probably lose the match… So I want all of you to know, when you sleep tonight, I won because of you.”

Wait, did that really just happen? Did this Medvedev kid, who remained relatively unknown outside Russia despite playing consecutive finals in Washington, Montreal and Cincinnati, just out-Gotham Gotham City? These are the folks who invented The Bronx Cheer. Nobody, I mean NOBODY calls out a stadium-full of New Yorkers.

“I actually have no idea why the demons go out when I play tennis,” said Medvedev.


But Medvedev seemed to revel in his role as chief mischief-maker. He just kept on winning, taking out 2016 US Open champion Wawrinka in the quarter-finals and Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov in the semi-finals, extending his winning streak to 12 consecutive matches.

By the time he reached the final against Nadal, something remarkable had happened: He’d won the crowd. You just had to admire the gumption, the gall to stand up to them like that. He might have been born in Moscow, but deep down he was one of their own.

“DANIIL MEDVEDEV IS MORE NEW YORK THAN MOST NEW YORKERS,” the New York Post called out.

Medvedev’s coach, Gilles Cervara, tried to shed some light on his gifted charge with the eccentric groundstrokes.

“His game is like his personality — very different,” explained the Frenchman, as Medvedev surged toward the final. “It’s like coaching a genius. Sometimes a genius, you don’t understand them. It’s like this. They’re different. And you have to connect to this guy like he is.”

By the end of 2019, Medvedev was no longer an unknown. He led the ATP Tour in wins that year with 59, highlighted by a 29-3 run that included six straight finals and his first ATP Masters 1000 crown (Cincinnati). Rising to No. 4 in the FedEx ATP Rankings, he became the highest-ranked Russian since Nikolay Davydenko in 2008.

Medvedev would carry that momentum into 2020, claiming wins in his last 10 matches of the year, including seven Top-10 victories. En route to the title at the Nitto ATP Finals, the baseliner defeated No. 1 Djokovic, No. 2 Nadal and No. 3 Thiem, becoming the first player to sweep the Top 3 in a single edition of the season finale.


Few were surprised when Medvedev, after helping lead Russia to the 2021 ATP Cup title, knifed his way through the draw at the Australian Open and reached the second major final of his career. Not even Stefanos Tsitsipas.

After falling to Medvedev, 7-6(5), 7-5, in the 2019 Rolex Shanghai Masters semi-finals, the Athenian had been dismissive of his opponent’s game. “I don’t mean to be rude at all, but it’s just boring,” said Tsitsipas. But prior to their semi-final clash in Melbourne, he was nothing but complimentary: “I might have said in the past that he plays boring, but I don’t really think he plays boring. He just plays extremely smart and outplays you. He’s somebody I really need to be careful with and just take my chances and press.”

Medvedev prevailed in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2, 7-5.

Only days after his 25th birthday, he would come up short in the final against Djokovic, who captured his record ninth Australian Open title. But the 6’6” Muscovite had taken another step in his maturation, further establishing himself among the game’s elite. Beginning with his title run at the Rolex Paris Masters last November, through the Australian Open semi-finals, Medvedev won 20 consecutive matches and ran up a 12-match winning streak against Top-10 opponents.

That disrupter so many of us were first introduced to at the 2019 US Open? The one who welcomed the boos? He’s an established presence now, as formidable an opponent as they come. As the new World No. 2 continues his pursuit of his first Grand Slam crown, he’s given us so much to cheer for.

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[DUN I LOVE]

Złoto.

[Damian]

15.03.2021

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 2

[Bombardiero]

@DUN I LOVE

[DUN I LOVE]

Poproszę o kolejny krok do przodu.

[Bombardiero]

Myślałem, że o kolejną grafikę.

[Damian]

[DUN I LOVE]

Duma mnie rozpiera.

[Damian]

Herbert Jumps 20 Places, Medvedev Rises To No. 2

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ATPTour.com looks at the top Movers of the Week in the FedEx ATP Rankings, as of Monday, 15 March 2021
No. 73 Pierre-Hugues Herbert, +20
The Frenchmen rises 20 places to No. 73 in the FedEx ATP Rankings after reaching his fourth ATP Tour final at the Open 13 Provence in Marseille (l. to Medvedev). The 29-year-old beat Kei Nishikori and World No. 5 and two-time defending champion Stefanos Tsitsipas en route to the title match.

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No. 2 Daniil Medvedev, +1
The Russian has become the first player outside of the Big Four — Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray — to occupy the No. 2 position in the FedEx ATP Rankings for the first time since July 2005. Medvedev captured his 10th ATP Tour title on Sunday in Marseille. The 25-year-old has compiled a 14-2 match record so far in 2021, which includes helping Russia capture the ATP Cup title and also a run to the Australian Open final (l. to Djokovic).

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No. 20 Cristian Garin, +2
The Chilean returns to the Top 20 for the first time since 12 October 2020 after capturing his fifth clay-court crown on Sunday at the Chile Dove Men+Care Open in Santiago (d. Bagnis).

Other Notable Top 100 Movers
No. 11 Roberto Bautista Agut, +2
No. 30 Taylor Fritz, +3
No. 36 Nikoloz Basilashvili, +6
No. 42 Aslan Karatsev, +3
No. 56 Frances Tiafoe, +8
No. 79 Federico Delbonis, +7
No. 96 Andreas Seppi, +11

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[Bombardiero]

@DUN I LOVE, mam coś dla Ciebie.

[Bombardiero]

[DUN I LOVE]

Tak wygląda rozwój megakozaka:

[Bombardiero]