Daniil Medvedev fait toujours partie des favoris de l'US Open. Le Russe est finaliste sortant et joue souvent très bien à New York. Ce mardi, il retrouvait Dusan Lajovic, joueur contre lequel il avait perdu les deux dernières fois. Ce coup-ci, Medvedev s'est imposé en quatre sets 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1. La première victoire du numéro 5 mondial sur dur cet été. Toujours très franc, celui qui affrontera Fabian Maroszan au deuxième tour a donné son avis sur le cas Jannik Sinner, contrôlé positif en mars mais innocenté juste avant l'US Open. Le Russe n'en veut pas à l'Italien mais a un doute quant au traitement des autres joueurs dans la même situation par les instances.
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00:00Tough match. Dushan can play well. Like first two sets he was playing really well and I'm
00:10happy that I managed to keep my level in second set. I feel like I played very well. He just
00:14played better and I keep my level. He dropped a little bit third and fourth set. I managed
00:19to play only better and better from then and happy with my level moving forward.
00:25Congratulations on the first round.
00:27Thanks.
00:28I'm curious how you found the conditions out there today with the temperature and if also
00:38you know you participated last year in that crazy match with Andre and if you think about
00:44it much when you're here and what you think about it.
00:47Yeah for sure. New York can be brutal. Like it depends more probably on the humidity than
00:52in the heat itself. And I saw that tomorrow is the hottest day so probably lucky in a
00:57way to play Tuesday, Thursday. But it's going to be interesting tomorrow for guys who play
01:01like at 12, 1. Not going to be easy. And today yes it was hot. You could see in the fourth
01:07set that he was struggling a lot. I was not in my best shape but there was like a break
01:13point. I think 32 shots someone told me after. And at the end I was like even during the
01:18point I almost couldn't move anymore. But the last shot he couldn't move at all. So
01:22I was like well okay we're both in the in the same position. So it was hot. It was humid
01:27and you try to do what you do. Ice towel, drink a lot of water etc. And you fight. But
01:33it was definitely much easier than with the ruble last time.
01:37Yeah the weather.
01:38David.
01:39Hi Daniel. David Kane. Tennis.com. I think you're probably not coming. You're not used
01:44to coming in here with as many matches as you normally have. I'm curious maybe not as
01:48much moments but maybe you're feeling fresher. How do you assess where you are right now?
01:51Yeah I definitely had a very good preparation because I lost 30 in Cincinnati. So the preparation
01:57was there. Almost like a little bit like a training block which I couldn't get after
02:01Wimbledon. I played a good Wimbledon. I had like two three days back home before Olympics.
02:05Olympics, Montreal straight away. So no really days to practice. This can sometimes bring
02:12a little bit worse results in a way. I like doing training blocks so I had it here. Look
02:18in Montreal, Cincinnati I knew it was not my best tennis. And it happens. It was important
02:24for me to come here. Feel excited. Feel ready. Try to play better. I managed to do it back
02:29on the winning ways and I will try to win a lot of more matches.
02:32Hey Daniel. Just curious. There's been a lot of discussion about Yannick Sinner's anti-doping
02:41case. I'm curious. Some people have been quite critical of it. I'm curious what your perspective
02:47is on that.
02:48Yeah I think my perspective is a little bit. I think I saw Taylor and I really like what
02:53he said is that look it's only him who knows what happened exactly so we cannot know. Nobody
02:59can know like the exact truth except him, his team and maybe the guys who like the independent
03:07tribunal. I just say I hope that this situation can be the same for every player. Like every
03:14player can defend himself because I think what he did was within the rules. Like it's
03:19just the rules are a little bit vague etc. For me the only thing where I'm a little bit
03:25like doping cases make me scared is imagine so he knew what happened and good for him
03:31so he managed to defend himself. Imagine whatever tennis player in the top hundred gets an email
03:37and they say look there was cocaine in your blood and you come to them and you say well
03:41I never did anything in my life. I don't know how I did it get there. And when you don't
03:45know you get suspended. That's a little bit the tricky part but that's how doping rules
03:50are and it's okay you go with it. As I say I just hope it's the same for treatment for
03:57every player.
04:00Just to follow up on what you just said since the Sinner thing happened do you find yourself
04:05mentally making more notes about things you touch, things you eat, things you drink?
04:13No I always try to take care of this and then yeah as I say you never know what can happen
04:19in life and yeah it's some of the doping cases I'm talking about all the sports in many many
04:25years we had some of them seem ridiculous but a lot of them are ridiculous how like
04:30as I say it happened where you're like yeah I'm sorry that's how it happened. Life is
04:35ridiculous sometimes so no I just I take care of it all the time and then you never know
04:41what happens.
04:42I have a less serious question. You're known for your sense of humor and you speak multiple
04:48languages quite comfortably. Is there a particular language that you find easiest to express
04:52your sense of humor and is there an audience that is more receptive than others?
04:57Tough to say. I would like to have a good sense of humor in any language but I would
05:03probably say don't even know why but English is probably a little bit like easier going
05:09language you know so it's like easier to express yourself maybe but yeah I speak three languages
05:15I like to speak them I would definitely like to learn more and I do think I have like the
05:20what's called the ear to speak other languages and then I'm just a bit too lazy like I don't
05:26have much free time and when I do I'm like to start learning new language it's exciting
05:32but it's a bit it's a bit of a work and I have a lot of work to do so maybe later.
05:36In terms of phrases in English when you were learning it that you found funny or silly
05:40from coming from Russian?
05:42I don't remember there are a lot yeah tough tough to remember like this but for sure when
05:48learning there were a lot of phrases that like catch your eye in a way and especially
05:55what is sometimes yeah funny when you start learning a language so now when I speak to
05:59you I don't think like I don't translate I just speak but at first when you speak Russian
06:05to yourself and then you translate and that's where the funny phrases can come from because
06:10you mix up words etc but now I'm not going to remember anything like this fast.
06:15We're coming up on a five-year anniversary of your famous when you go to sleep at night
06:22thing I'm sure a lot of fans are going to celebrate that on the internet the five-year
06:29anniversary do you want people to to celebrate that and to remember that?
06:35To be honest look there are some things in my career I'm not happy of but this interview
06:39was probably my best ever after the match and I absolutely love it so if people want
06:47to celebrate I'm there for it.
06:49Willie.
06:50Daniil when you think of Novak winning the Olympics and saying that's the greatest achievement
06:57of his career after all he's done what are your thoughts on what it means as you look
07:04at his career as somebody who's a competitor of his?
07:08Amazing I mean like you know Novak, Rafa, Roger we all know they're amazing they're
07:12Grand Slam records etc and so whenever Novak wins a Grand Slam you're always in his age
07:18well the last one was here in US Open you're always like amazed by what he's doing what
07:24is he is continuing to achieve but you're like we're used to it and then Olympics for
07:29me personally I unfortunately I didn't see the match I was in Montreal time difference
07:33I think I had a practice or something but me personally I thought the way Carlos is
07:38like going into the match won Roland Garros won Wimbledon against Novak played amazing
07:44in Olympics and I honestly thought he's gonna win and then Novak 37 years old I saw some
07:51highlights playing maybe the best match of the season I was amazed by how he's here he's
07:59able to come into this match where there is a lot of pressure that's the only thing he
08:02never won and still like be even better than himself usually and beat Carlos who was unstoppable
08:10this year I was amazed even more even if I'm already amazed by Novak so yeah and unbelievable
08:18and not much more I can add.
08:20When you think of what he says about still motivated to do all the work that's involved
08:24something you're very familiar with to do it here to do it in future majors what goes
08:30through your mind?
08:32Respect you know he respects the hustle he respects the game respect the work he goes
08:38for it goes for it till the end everyone has different routines and he has he's that works
08:46and yeah for sure to to to see this it's a big admiration I would say not sure I would
08:52be able to do the same but it's a big admiration yeah.