MEDVEDEV. While the London tournament begins this Monday, June 27, the Russian Daniil Medvedev will not participate in the 3rd Grand Slam of the year.
Daniil Medvedev could clearly have claimed the final victory in this Wimbledon 2022, he will watch the tournament from home. Due to the war between Russia and Ukraine, officials of the grass-court tournament decided a few weeks ago to exclude Russian and Belarusian players from the Grand Slam and not to award ATP points for the tournament.
“A point in the heart” for Medvedev’s coach, Gilles Cervara. “Once you know he couldn’t play Wimbledon, that’s something you get used to. All the projections are for something else to handle the situation. But when I saw the draw Friday, it is true that there was a rush to see that he is not in the table when he should have been.
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Biography Daniil Medvedev. Daniil Medvedev, 26, was born on February 11, 1996 in Moscow, Russia. Before becoming one of today’s best tennis players, the Russian first practiced breaststroke in Moscow basins before switching to the yellow ball at the age of eight, on the advice of his father Sergei. The latter borrows money to help his son break into the world of tennis. Among the Juniors, he never did better than 13th place in the world with 8 titles won. Often crazy on the pitch and unable to manage his emotions, a penalty point was only a formality for Daniil Medvedev. Since 2014 and his meeting with Frenchman Gilles Cervara at the Elite Tennis Center in Cannes, who became his regular coach in 2017, the neo world No. 1 has continued to progress. If the tennis player is still trained by the Habs, the duo formed by the two men brings a new style to tennis with a very flat game, without much effect on all surfaces. Together, Cervara and Medvedev have won 13 ATP titles including the US Open in 2021, the London Masters in 2020 and 4 Masters 1000 (Cincinnati in 2019, Shanghai in 2019, Paris-Bercy in 2020 and Toronto in 2021).
By taking the place of world No. 1, Daniil Medvedev dethroned the Serbian Novak Djokovic whom he faced ten times in his career. Among the 10 confrontations, the Russian lost six times, including the last in the final of the Masters 1000 Paris-Bercy (4-6 6-3 6-3). The native of Moscow nevertheless deprived his Serbian counterpart of a Grand Slam (a player wins the four grand slams in a season) unprecedented in 2021 after his triumph at the US Open in three short sets (6-4 6-4 6 -4).
World No. 2 at the end of the 2021 season, Daniil Medvedev became the first player, second in the ATP world rankings since 2005 (and Australian Lleyton Hewitt) not to be called Djokovic, Nadal, Federer and Murray. After Novak Djokovic’s defeat in the quarter-finals of the Dubai tournament on Thursday February 24 against the Czech Jiri Vesely, Daniil Medvedev became world No. 1 before his quarter-final of the Acapulco tournament against Yoshihito Nishioka. A new place that the Russian celebrated with a victory against the Japanese (6-2 6-3).
Former TOP 100 junior player, Daria shares the life of Daniil Medvedev. The two Russians got married in September 2018 after four years together. By winning the US Open in 2021, the new world n°1 wanted to celebrate his 3 years of union with his wife in front of the spectators present.
“The only thing I thought, ‘If I lose, I have no time to find a present.’ So I have to win this match.”
On Daniil Medvedev and his wife Daria’s third anniversary, he wins his first ever major title #USOpen pic.twitter.com/vhYuKqQ9Kr
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) September 12, 2021
In 2014, Daniil Medvedev met Gilles Cervara, a French coach at Jean-René Lisnard’s Elite Tennis Center in Cannes. If the Russian leaves the structure at the end of 2020, he has been trained by the French since 2017. This association between the two men has allowed Daniil Medvedev to become bilingual in French and he has even settled in Monaco.