Daniil Medvedev will rest in Moscow – Sport – Kommersant

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The main Russian tennis tournament “VTB Kremlin Cup”, which starts on Saturday with qualifying matches, will be held without the participation of the second racket of the world, Daniil Medvedev, who took a break due to fatigue. He will not play at home for the second time in a row, like in 2019. At the same time, the grid of the women’s tournament has strengthened, since the wild card was received by the Belarusian tennis player Arina Sobolenko, who ranks second in the ranking of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA).

The fact that Daniil Medvedev will likely have to miss the Kremlin Cup due to physical problems became clear on Wednesday after his unexpected defeat to Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the fourth round of a major tournament in Indian Wells. Therefore, the information officially confirmed by the organizers of the Moscow tournament did not come as a big surprise. Thus, the main Russian tournament was left without the best Russian player for the second time in a row. Recall that in 2019, Daniil Medvedev arrived in Moscow overworked after winning in Shanghai and did not go to court.

Apparently, it will be the same now.

Medvedev again needs to recover before a busy ending to the season, including the final tournament in Turin and the Davis Cup final in Madrid.

At the same time, the agreement that he will appear in Moscow during the Kremlin Cup remains in force at the moment. At the drawing of lots, which will take place on Saturday at the Irina Viner-Usmanova Gymnastics Palace, Andrei Rublev, the fifth number of the rating of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), will be “seeded” under the first number.

But the female “seeding” has unexpectedly increased. It will be headed by the second racket of the world, Belarusian Arina Sobolenko, who resumed training after recently suffering a coronavirus and asked for a wild card in Moscow.

“Arina got in touch with us herself,” Alexei Selivanenko, vice president of the Russian Tennis Federation (RTR), director of the Kremlin Cup for women, told Kommersant. We gave her this opportunity with pleasure ”. According to Mr. Selivanenko, the 23-year-old Minsker is already in Moscow and is training. As for the decision of Daniil Medvedev, the leadership of the RTF took it with understanding. “We respect this absolutely objective decision and hope that the current pause will help Daniil better prepare for the final tournament and the Davis Cup final,” emphasized Mr. Selivanenko.

Evgeny Fedyakov

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