American Quarter Led by Ben Shelton Instills Fear in Daniil Medvedev for Laver Cup

Russian professional tennis player Daniil Medvedev spoke about his anticipated threatening opponents at the upcoming Laver Cup. Since the tournament will take place in Berlin this time, Medvedev feels a bit more comfortable in front of his native crowd. However, that is still not helping in his anxiety to face off against some excellent American rising stars of tennis.

While Daniil Medvedev’s team along with Alexander Zverev, and Carlos Alcaraz is quite strong, Team America also represents a heck load of outstanding players. This Russian player previously expressed his curiousness about the Laver Cup’s format and raised his concerns. Now he revealed his potential on-court threats before gearing up for the tournament.

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In an exclusive interview with Eurosport, Medvedev spoke about this year’s Laver Cup arrangements. He liked that this time the organizers chose Berlin as their venue as some competitors would have been immensely challenging in their home ground.

Medvedev said- “I think what is good is that we’re playing in Berlin, if we were playing in Washington or New York or somewhere, I would say guys like Frances [Tiafoe], Tommy [Paul], Ben Shelton, when they are playing in the US they’re extremely dangerous in front of their home crowd, that’s what we saw last year in Canada [when Team World won 13-2].”

Daniil Medvedev expressed his faith in the ATP rankings as he commented- “I’m someone who, in a way, goes by the rankings.” 

However, he specifically names one contender he finds truly competitive. Medvedev said- “I always said that for me Taylor has a great all-round game, it’s tough to play him. He has a great serve, great strokes, he’s defending better than people think. For the moment sometimes in later stages of Grand Slams, as we saw with Novak [Djokovic, at the Australian Open], maybe here and there at the end of the set he can give [away] some points.”

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Daniil Medvedev’s statement represented that he finds Taylor Fritz as an extremely threatening opponent in the Laver Cup. He mentioned how Tiafoe, Shelton, and Paul can go dangerously brilliant in front of their home crowd. therefore, this time Berlin lifted his confidence. Despite everything, fans are eagerly waiting to see Medvedev ace his tennis game against Taylor Fritz in the upcoming Laver Cup tournament.

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