By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, January 26, 2024
Going the gap has drained Daniil Medvedev bodily forward of his Australian Open remaining return.
The third-seeded Medvedev is able to push to the restrict when he meets Jannik Sinner in Sunday’s Australian Open remaining.
Medvedev has gained six of 9 conferences vs. Sinner, however the Italian Davis Cup hero has gained their final three encounters.
The 2021 US Open champion Medvedev has gone the five-set distance in three of his six match wins in Melbourne Park. Twice, Medvedev has rallied from two units right down to prevail.
Olympic gold-medal champion Zverev got here agonizingly near a maiden Australian Open remaining solely to blow a two-set lead and bow to rival Daniil Medvedev 5-7, 3-6, 7-6(4), 7-6(5), 6-3 in a gut-wrenching 4 hour, 18-minute loss.
In distinction, Sinner has not dopped a set in teh match and didn’t face a single break level dethroning 10-time AO Champion Novak Djokovic in a four-set semifinal win.
“I hope [experience] gives, because I hope to have some advantage. Physical advantage I probably don’t have,” Medvedev stated. “Tennis advantage, let’s see. But three last times he got me.
“So I hope that this expertise might help me. First remaining, I feel it is at all times completely different for everybody. I’m certain some guys went out on the primary remaining and felt so good they only managed, I do not know, to win it.
“There are probably these stories. Some would go and it would be tough mentally and they would lose. I have no idea how Jannik is going to be, but me, myself, I have this experience. I will try my best. I will fight for my life, and let’s see who wins.”
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