Image Source : AP Daniil Medvedev
Russia’s Daniil Medvedev admitted that he will not be below an excessive amount of stress within the Australian Open closing in opposition to Novak Djokovic who has by no means misplaced a summit conflict in Melbourne.
Medvedev reached his first Australian Open closing on Friday after beating Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 and shall be dealing with Djokovic within the closing.
Djokovic has reached the Australian Open closing eight occasions in his profession and by no means misplaced. A win on Sunday will assist the Serb get inside two wins of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal’s report of 20 Grand Slam titles.
“I don’t have a lot of pressure because Novak has never lost here in the final. He has all the pressure to get to Roger Federer and Rafa (in the all-time record of 20 men’s titles),” mentioned Medvedev within the on-court interview after his semi-final match in opposition to Tsitsipas.
“I hope I will get out there and show my best tennis. As we have seen, I can win against the best names if I play well. He has more experience but more things to lose than me.”
Medvedev has prior expertise of dealing with one of many “big three” in a Grand Slam closing, having misplaced to Nadal within the 2019 US Open.
“I took a lot of experience (from the US Open final against Nadal). It was my first Grand Slam final against one of the greatest and on Sunday I will face one of the other greatest,” he mentioned.
The 25-year-old Russian was medical on Friday besides within the third sport when Tsitsipas threatened to stage a comeback from two units to like down simply as he did in his quarter-final match in opposition to Nadal.
“I saw that as soon as I was moving him around the court, it was not easy for him. As soon as I saw it in the first set, that became my strategy straight away,” mentioned Medvedev.
He admitted that the slip-ups within the final set was as a result of event attending to him. “I got a little bit scared and tight because it’s a semifinal of a Slam,” mentioned Medvedev