‘Huge Impact to Their Body’: Stefanos Tsitsipas Comes Down on Daniil Medvedev’s Game After Australian Open 2022 Defeat

Coaching violations, obscenity warning, and to top it all, high-quality tennis for two hour and a half hours at the 2022 Australian Open. This is what Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev managed to provide tennis fans on Friday. An individual sport like tennis needs rivalries, and this duo is currently producing a promising duel for years to come on the ATP tour.

It was Medvedev who once again clinched the win over Tsitsipas, increasing his dominance over the Greek with seven victories compared to the latter’s two. Tsitsipas managed to stay close to Medvedev but always felt the heat on his service games throughout the contest. The Greek had the variety, but inconsistency hurt his chances against the no.2 seed.

Stefanos Tsitsipas talks about the playing style of Daniil Medvedev after Australian Open defeat

With this victory, Medvedev moves on to the final, where he will try to stop Rafael Nadal from winning his 21st slam title. Coming to Tsitsipas, the world no.4 was asked about his opinion on Medvedev’s game and his on-court spirit in general.

“Yeah, he’s a great competitor. He runs like a marathon runner, he can run for hours and hours. I’m not sure myself if that’s something that can last very long, having to run so much. Speaking from experiences like other players and champions, Grand Slam champions that I’ve seen, it had a huge impact to their body.”

However, Tsitsipas made sure to praise the fighting spirit of Medvedev and put him on par with Nadal.

“Oh, yeah, he’s one of the biggest fighters, together with Nadal. I guess he’s earned the title.” 

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With a long season ahead on the ATP tour, fans will hopefully get to see more of these two different playing styles battling out on a big stage to provide quality tennis to sit and enjoy. On hard courts, Medvedev clearly has the upper hand while Tsitsipas takes control on the red dirt.

It will be fascinating to follow Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev facing-off against each other over the next few years as next gen stars try to create intrigue amongst fans through these rivalries.

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