Daniil Medvedev felt he had “most likelylacked confidence on Friday after his elimination by Sebastian Korda in the third round of the Australian Open.
«He played at a good level and maybe even a little better than his + good level +. Me, I didn’t play badly at all, but just a little below what it would have taken to win“, Estimated the Russian who remained on two finals in Melbourne, in 2021 and 2022. “It’s hard because it’s probably a matter of trust. Be in a state where everything works, and I wasn’t there“, he added. “There were a lot of snags and I didn’t win many of those nice rallies. He won more, he hit more lines than me“, noted the champion of the US Open 2022.
«But I think it was a great match in which he was just better than me. Myself, I won a lot of matches like that“, he recalled. “At the moment, I’m having a little trouble winning these types of matches against opponents capable of playing at a good level. This is what I need to find“, he underlined. On February 28, he became the first non-Big 4 player (Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Murray) to become world No.1 since Andy Roddick in February 2004. But for a few months the results have not followed: he was 8th at the ATP for this Australian Open and he will be out of the Top10 at the end of the Australian Major.