Time of Medvedev

For the first time in 11 years, the Russian tennis player won the Attic Ground Tournament, while defeating three leaders of the world ranking

Other people come. Regarding Daniil Medvedev - completely different. The fact that he does not look like great predecessors is not good and not bad. I myself can’t fully deal with the attitude to a big redistribution, but the fact that it happens, at least in tennis, is a fact.

So, the 24-year-old Medvedev, who did not win a single Bolshoi helmet tournament, the biggest achievement of which was the final of the US Open Championship-2019, won all five matches of the final tournament of the Professional tennis players,

Including Novak Djokovic in a group, over Rafel Nadal in the semifinals and, finally, over Dominic Tim in the final match.

The first three of the world ranking in the framework of this particular tournament was not won at all, and in the framework of the entire Attorist tour it happened for the only fourth time. The eighth racket of the world ranking Andrei Rublev also fought for the victory in London - however, with a lesser success than Medvedev. Two Russians have not been the best at the battle of the best, since the time of Marat Safin and Nikolai Davydenko.

A curious detail: Davydenko was the first Russian to win the final tournament, and this happened in 2009, when the forum moved from Shanghai to London. And Medvedev was looping the Russian plot with his current victory in London, who parted with the tournament: he moves to Turin. Daniel reminded of this in the welcoming speech of the winner - how unexpected, so expected.

It seemed that all this toxic for sports - and not only for sports - is only tormented by a year. He spent the prosperous 2019, clearing the space around him, and climbed the rating steps to the fifth position. True, he lost all three matches at the debut final tournament, but retained the fifth place for himself. And from the beginning of 2020-how it cut off. A break, taken by the ATR-Tour due to the pandemic, it seemed to help you reboot-at the opening championship of the United States, Medvedev reached the semifinals, where he lost to the Domenic of Tim, but then did not gain Lavrov in Hamburg, and at Rollan Garros completely starred from the route in the first time-for the fourth time, having lost the Marton Marton Marton for this time. Fuchovich. It turned out that Daniel did not defeat any of the neighbors in the first ten world rating for the year.

But he took and first won the Masters series tournament in Paris, looking almost the Medvedev, which so struck everyone in the first half of 2019: hard, aggressive, clinging to every point that is inexorably squeezing any opponent. Of course, I did not believe the famous tennis player Andrei Chesnokov, who, on the eve of the Big London gathering, preferred Medvedev, but the specialist was right. Daniil Medvedev closed the joyless for Russian tennis a decade for the first big victory, which promised a lot.

True, I would not in a hurry with this.

The world of large tennis, with all external decency and orderliness, is gesture and ruthless, like a jungle. Thousands strive to conquer him, few are breaking through in the top athletes, units are held at the top. All the last years in the male single discharge there are only three of them: Federer, Djokovic, Nadal, collecting the lion's share of titles and prize. They also lose, including each other, they also have recessions, but there are enough space on the throne. And no one else.

They are completely different in the manner of the game, but equally great and charismatic. They have an army of fans with whom they are in excellent relations. They like them.

But their time passes not only because the time comes, but also because new people come who do not have to like. One of them, as sometimes it seems, doesn’t care whether it is loved by the audience or not. Moreover, last year, at the most successful for Medvedev, the Grand Slam tournament in the United States, Daniil issued a performance, which put the entire tennis world on his ears. During the match with the Spanish veteran Feliciano Lopez, he was all the time by something dissatisfied. He pulled out a towel from the hands of Bulbo, argued with the judge, habitually broke the racket. The stands to such behavior reacted respectively - with a rumble and a whistle, to which Daniel showed the audience the middle finger. This has finished fans and organizers who wrote a 9,000th fine to the Russian.

The short spear addressed to the audience after the victorious conclusion was amazing: “Thank you for your energy - she brought me a victory in this match. If not for you, I would not have won. When you go to bed, I want you to know: I won thanks to you. The more you boog out me, the more I will win. ” After that, Medvedev could have been ostracked, but he received support not only among Russian Hurland-patriots. A number of Western publications regarded the speech as “excellent trolling”, “one of the most sarcastic speeches in the history of sports”, “Very subtle and witty performance”:

"He is a spike among roses in sports, where everyone is desperately trying to be disgustingly cute."

The rising storm even overshadowed the epic battle of the impudent Russian with Rafael Nadal himself in the final, where Medvedev played two sets from the great, led the fifth of 5: 1, but still lost.

Of course, as a logically thinking and pragmatic person, Daniil Medvedev understands in which coordinates he exists and where he makes money. “I behaved like an idiot,” is his words. But this was not repentance. This was a necessity, and the passing, on which it was not worth linger. It was - drove.

It breaks rackets - so Marat Safin broke them more than a thousand. He argues with arbitrators - so not only he is alone. He gets fines - and who was not punished? This is not the point. So far, it really seems that the curtys towards the public, no matter what and where, Medvedev makes more by responsibility. And if the reaction is negative, then this only helps him to start.

However, when there are no people at all, it does not matter either. It seems to me that Medvedev also turned out to be more than a successful finish of the season because he was psychologically adapted to the absence of spectators. It was difficult for everyone, but Daniel depended less on the reaction of the stands.

This is an important point, testifying to the onset of new times, where there is no place for people with charisma.

I will say softer: charisma no longer has the same meaning as before. Medvedev has a big minus in this part, which does not bother him at all, like fans of the new leader. If this is a tendency, and I have reason to believe that this is the case, Kumirov will not be at all in the previous sense. Well, or there will be almost no.

I'm not talking about the fact that robots come. No, what is Medvedev Robot? As rivals characterize it, he is “octopus”, “spider”, “unbending”, “beast”, “unusual”, “patient”, even “crazy”. He actually has oddities, which, however, do not seem to be a significant part of his fans. Is a hobby for computer games in the present time - oddity? If negative emotions are more manifested than positive, is this something bad?

Probably not. New times are new people. But, I'm afraid, no matter what success Daniil Medvedev achieved in the future, to love as their predecessors love, he will not be.

And success will be. For this he has everything. Tall, flexible, coordinated, non -standard. The presentation is like a whip, when Medvedev in shape is almost slaughter. The patience is phenomenal, the tactics are diverse, the restraint is crazy, the manner of the game is not similar to anyone, it is difficult to adapt.

Not all, but much - from childhood.

Born in Moscow on February 11, 1996. The family is not sports and not the rich. A very active child was given to tennis at seven years old-in order to take something else except swimming. Parents did not seek to make a star out of it at all costs - he wanted to become it himself. Tennis did not look on TV, he did not hang photos of idols. When he began to play matches, with defeats from grief, screamed so that everyone around was scattered. There was not a child prospect, but the career developed quite successfully, despite the problems with the heart. When a regression was outlined in tennis, parents sold two apartments in Moscow and in 2014 left for France, where one of the older sisters already lived.

He lives and trains in Monaco, the coach is a cervar's yield. He has been married for two years. He studied at the Physics and Mathematics Lyceum, graduated from one course in MGIMO at the faculty of applied economy and commerce.

It has diplomas of two universities-physical education and economic and economic-statistical. 9 titles in the Asia -Pacific region. Places in the ranking since 2015: 329, 99, 65, 16, 5. At the end of 2020, the 4th racket of the world in a single discharge. The largest prizes for a career in millions of dollars: Shanghai-2019-1.374; New York-2019-1.9; London-2020-1.564.

... The match with the Austrian Dominic Tim, continuing the record for the final tournament of the Asia -Pacific region 2 hours 43 minutes, was extremely difficult. Medvedev lost the first set, was in the balance from the defeat in the second, but pulled it out in a tie-break, in the third he already took control of the game. When I won the victorious point, I just went to the net to shake your hand to the opponent. He usually ends victorious matches, even the most important. This is all Medvedev. As he himself said, “I do not want to look self -confident or impudent. It's just that my style that remains in the whole career. ”

Let's see if he will preserve composure when he wins the first Bolshoi helmet tournament. The Russians have been "silent" for a decade and a half. The time for Medvedev came.