ATP Masters Paris-Bercy: balls, surface? - Daniil Medvedev is looking for explanations for the early exit
Tournament co-favorite Daniil Medvedev looked for the reasons for the unexpected defeat at the press conference after his second round defeat against Alex de Minaur.
by Stefan Bergmann
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Nov 03, 2022, 03:34 pm
That's how it works in tennis: One week hui, the next ugh. This is what happened to Daniil Medvedev at the moment: Last week there was a fairly confident tournament victory at the ATP World Tour 500 tournament in the Wiener Stadthalle, but this week the end of the ATP Masters 1000 tournament was in Paris-Bercy came in the second round.
The unexpected defeat was due on the one hand to Alex de Minaur from Australia, who fought bravely and, with the exception of the second set, played strongly could.
Too little preparation for new events
On the other hand, it was also a used day for the Russian, so many mistakes in a row like yesterday aren't really what you're used to from the 26-year-old from Moscow. In the press conference following the defeat, Medvedev tried to explore the causes without not primarily blaming himself.
"It's never easy to switch from one tournament to another. It doesn't matter whether it's a final or a semi-final, it's never easy to play the following week," Medvedev explained the short preparation time for the new circumstances To meet.
"Place in Vienna was three times faster"
The change in ball types from tournament to tournament is a thorn in the side of last year's US Open champion: "We played with ATP balls in Vienna, here they play with Head and in Turin other ATP balls are used again. That's pretty strange. As far as I know, the ATP has been discussing this topic for 20 years, but there is sponsorship - and here it's Head."
"As for the surface: In Vienna it was very fast, I liked that. Basically, I like all hard courts, whether slow or fast. But the court in Vienna was three times faster than this one and then it's difficult to adjust to it . On the other hand - if I had won I certainly wouldn't have said a word about it."