Cervara : "The next step is to win a Grand Slam again"
Daniil Medvedev's French coach is counting on 2024 to be a milestone for the Russian.
KEY MOMENTS
0.10 - Gilles Cervara is pleased with the amount of success Daniil Medvedev had in 2023. The goal for 2024 is, he says, to have at least the same success.
0.43 - "When you're one of the top players it's all about winning the biggest tournaments, ie Grand Slams," he says. "That's the goal. Clearly."
0.49 - Cervara assesses Medvedev's biggest rivals on tour, contrasting the youth of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz with the experience of Novak Djokovic. Medvedev will need to beat those players if he is to win a Grand Slam.
1.34 - Cervara wonders whether all of those players will be able to repeat the kind of form they had in 2023.
1.47 - Looking at the longevity of Djokovic's career, Cervara speculates whether Medvedev might play until the same age, and admits that nobody knows - not even him. But in terms of experience and fitness, Medvedev is entering the fourth quarter of his career and his maximum potential, says his coach.
2.20 - That means Medvedev needs to dare to do new things, which can bring a benefit in terms of the way he plays.
KEY MOMENTS
0.10 - Gilles Cervara is pleased with the amount of success Daniil Medvedev had in 2023. The goal for 2024 is, he says, to have at least the same success.
0.43 - "When you're one of the top players it's all about winning the biggest tournaments, ie Grand Slams," he says. "That's the goal. Clearly."
0.49 - Cervara assesses Medvedev's biggest rivals on tour, contrasting the youth of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz with the experience of Novak Djokovic. Medvedev will need to beat those players if he is to win a Grand Slam.
1.34 - Cervara wonders whether all of those players will be able to repeat the kind of form they had in 2023.
1.47 - Looking at the longevity of Djokovic's career, Cervara speculates whether Medvedev might play until the same age, and admits that nobody knows - not even him. But in terms of experience and fitness, Medvedev is entering the fourth quarter of his career and his maximum potential, says his coach.
2.20 - That means Medvedev needs to dare to do new things, which can bring a benefit in terms of the way he plays.
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00:00 I want to project myself on 2024 too,
00:02 to say that the next step is to be able to win a Grand Slam again.
00:06 From my point of view, we had a very good season in 2023.
00:10 This period, Rotterdam, Doha, Dubai, Indian Wells, Miami,
00:14 it was exceptional, really,
00:15 and it puts you in a really, really, really good season dimension.
00:21 If you put that as a base, you can be disappointed
00:23 because it was less linked in the same way,
00:26 but there were still good tournaments and good victories over the course of the season.
00:30 The goal, as we say, in view of this 2023 season,
00:34 it is obvious, it is to do at least the same good season,
00:38 win Master Mils, perform well in Grand Slams,
00:41 and in fact, when you're in the first roles,
00:43 it's to win the biggest tournaments, that is to say Grand Slams.
00:47 That's the goal, yeah.
00:48 Clearly, yes.
00:49 Yannick and Carlos are young, they arrive as if in a trance,
00:53 with a game that moves.
00:55 There is another Noba who is there with all his experience,
00:59 who is the defender, the potential winner of all the Grand Slams.
01:03 And when you take the last matches, the last finals played,
01:08 whether it's at the US Open, whether it's in Vienna, in Beijing,
01:12 or even the semi-final in Turin,
01:14 we realize that it's this kind of match, against this kind of opponent,
01:19 that we will have to win to be able to claim to win a Grand Slam, a new Grand Slam.
01:24 After, what will happen next season with them,
01:27 with Carlos, with Yannick and Novak?
01:31 The future will tell, I can't know, because there are questions.
01:34 Is Yannick able to do what he did at the end of 2023 in Grand Slams?
01:39 It's a question everyone is asking.
01:41 And Novak, will he continue?
01:43 I want to say, what would stop him?
01:45 Does he have the ambition to play until the age of Novak, for example?
01:48 Nobody can know.
01:49 Even him, and even if he said it today,
01:51 it would be a value of the moment,
01:54 because you don't know how life makes people evolve.
01:58 In any case, from the point of view of experience and physics,
02:02 he is actually entering a third quarter of his career.
02:07 I would say that we are approaching his maximum potential.
02:10 For me, there is still room for progression,
02:13 in terms of the game,
02:15 but this game plan is related to the mental, if I may say so,
02:19 even if I don't like that word, which sums up too many things,
02:22 but on certain visions of his game,
02:24 certain beliefs to be able to dare to do new things,
02:28 so to dare to fail at the beginning, perhaps,
02:30 to do new things that could potentially
02:33 bring a benefit in terms of the game,
02:36 to meet the demand that opponents offer him.
02:41 [Music]