Daniil Medvedev could also be much less vulnerable to sledge the Australian Open crowd this time round after describing his “low IQ” feedback of 2022 as “not smart”.
The global No 7 mirrored on remaining 12 months’s event as he ready to contest the Adelaide International, a warm-up to the calendar’s opening slam at Melbourne Park, the place he misplaced remaining 12 months’s last to Rafael Nadal.
Before that, even though, Medvedev beat Nick Kyrgios in a four-set second-round mystery, and then he complained a few phase of spectators who had chanted “siuuu” between his serves, telling Eurosport: “I guess some people just have a low IQ.”
A 12 months on, he says he would relish any other fit towards the Australian, who has since overwhelmed the Russian in 4 units in america Open’s around of 16, however indicated he would method the gang in a different way.
“Out of the 13,000 who were there [at Rod Laver Arena], because the stadium was packed, this comment was maybe to 50 people max, so that’s the first thing,” Medvedev said. “And this comment was probably not smart from my part.
“But when you go out from the match, the way it was with Nick, sometimes you say things like an hour later, [and you think] ‘Why did I say this?’ First of all, it’s maybe not true, then it’s stupid.”
That win was Medvedev’s lone victory against Kyrgios, who holds a 4-1 record against the Russian.
“Nick is a great player, great serve,” Medvedev said. “I don’t feel like we have, like, some crazy rivalry because he definitely has some more spiced-up rivalries with other players.
“I feel like when I play him it’s a great match-up. I would like to play him more, to try to do better than last year. Definitely at the US Open he was not easy to handle, so I want to try to get my revenge if I have the chance.”
Despite being glad to play the Adelaide International, Medvedev said he would “definitely prefer” to have been at the United Cup. The inaugural tournament is contested by countries, and Russia and Belarus are barred from entering teams because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“I would like to play in the ATP Cup, so the United Cup seems interesting,” he said. “We would be the only team with four players in the top 10 so we would definitely be good favorites there, but it is what it is. I’m happy to be here in Adelaide, playing this tournament.
“I completely understand why we’re not playing Davis Cup or United Cup and team competitions, where we would represent our country.”
Medvedev said he needed a long time to recover from his loss to Nadal in last year’s Australian Open final, when Nadal pulled off a comeback for the ages by sealing a 2-6 6-7(5) 6-4 6-4 7- 5 victory.
“I felt completely horrible … the object about lifestyles and tennis is that you must recover from it, check out to be informed from it as a result of you’ll’t exchange the previous,” he said.
“I had some tough moments in my career… tough losses — I know a lot of losses in a row and I always managed to find a way back, so I’m sure I’m going to find the way back to an even higher level than I was playing maybe last year.
“But yeah, the match was not easy to get over for some time, but right now I’m looking forward to the Australian Open again and I want to do better than last year. That’s the goal.
Medvedev will open his Adelaide marketing campaign towards Italian Lorenzo Sonego, earlier than a possible semi-final conflict towards 21-time grand slam champion Novak Djokovic.