The fifth-ranked Greek, who saved set factors within the fourth set defeating Jiri Vesely 7-5, 6-3, 4-7, 7-6(7) in his Roland Garros opener, suggests his future duels with fierce rival Medvedev will climax as dance events.
“Well, if it’s meant to be this way, I guess there is a dance after every one of them, I guess,” Tsitsipas instructed the media at Roland Garros. “No, it was fun. I wasn’t mad or upset or anything regarding that.
“I did the identical a couple of months in the past, so.”
Medvedev’s win over Tsitsitsipas gave him an 8-4 lead in their head-to-head series.
It was the 2021 US Open champion’s first Top 10 victory on clay since 2019 and set him up for his first career clay-court crown.
Former Roland Garros runner-up Tsitsipas said Medvedev has redefined himself as both a dancer and clay-court danger with his Rome run.
“I knew form of that I used to be coping with a special participant as a result of he appeared to be enjoying properly towards some good opponents simply earlier than we confronted one another,” Tsitsipas said. “So in a means I used to be anticipating one thing higher. I wasn’t anticipating that a lot better of what he performed within the semifinals.
“But that for sure pushes me to be much more focused and determined, and kind of, not down-to-earth, I wouldn’t say, because, you know, he kind of caught me off guard, the consistency and the power that he was able to put out there. But for sure he gave me a fresh idea of who he now is on this surface.”
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