Daniil Medvedev Press Conference | 2024 US Open Round 1

four sets assess your performance today yeah tough match uh Duan can play well like first two sets he was playing really well and I'm happy that I managed to keep my level in second set I feel like I played very well he just played better and I keep my level he dropped a little bit third and fourth set I managed to play only better and better from uh from then and uh happy with my level moving forward congratulations on the first round win thanks questions Matt uh I'm curious how you found the conditions out there today with the temperature and if also you know you participated last year in that crazy match with Andre and if you think about it much when you're here and what you think about it yeah for sure New York can be brutal like it depends more probably on humidity than in the heat itself uh and I saw that tomorrow is the hottest day so probably lucky in a way to play Tuesday Thursday but it's going to be interesting tomorrow for guys who play like at 12 1 not going to be easy uh and today yes same it was hot you could see in the fourth set that he was struggling a lot I was not in my best shape but there was like a break point I think 32 shots someone told me after and at the end I was like even during the point I almost couldn't move anymore but the last shot he couldn't move at all so I was like well okay we're both in the in the same position so it was hot it was humid and you tried to do what you do ice towel drink a lot of water Etc and you fight but it was definitely much easier than with Ruff last time yeah the weather David David tennis.com I think you're probably not coming you're not used to coming in here with as many matches as you normally have I'm curious maybe not as much of amense but maybe you're feeling fresher how do you assess where you are right now yeah I definitely had a very good preparation because I lost 30 in Cincinnati so the preparation were there almost like a little little bit like a training block which I couldn't get after Wimbledon I played a good Wimbledon I had like two three days back home before Olympics Olympics monreal straight away so no really days to practice this can can sometimes bring a little bit worse results in a way I like doing training blocks so I had it here uh look in Montreal Cincinnati I knew it was not my best tennis and it happens it was important for me to come here feel excited feel ready try to play better I managed to do it back on the winning ways and we try to win a lot of more matches hey Daniel um just curious um there's been a lot of uh discussion about y's um anti-doping case I'm curious um some people have been quite critical of it I'm curious what your perspective is on it yeah I think my perspective is a little bit I think I saw Taylor and I really like what he said is that look it's only him who knows uh what happened exactly so we we cannot know nobody can know like the exact truths except him his team and maybe the guys who like the independent independent tribunal um I just same I hope that this uh situation can be the same for every player like every player can defend himself uh because I think what he did was in within the rules like uh it's just the rules are a little bit vague etc for me the only thing where I'm a little bit like dopping uh cases make me scared is imagine so he knew what happened and good for him so he managed to defend himself imagine whatever tennis player in the top 100 gets an email um and they say look there was cocaine in your blood and you come to them and you say well I never did anything in my life I don't know how I did it get there and when you don't know you get suspended that's a little bit the tricky part um but that's how yeah dopping rules are and uh it's okay you you go you go with it as I say I just hope it's the same for treatment for every player yeah Ju Just to follow up on what you just said since the center thing happened do you find yourself mentally making more notes about things you touch things you eat things you drink no I always try to take care of this and then yeah as I say uh you never know what can happen in life and um yeah it's uh some of the dopping cases I'm talking about all the sports in many many years we had some of them seem ridiculous but a lot of them are ridiculous how like as I say it happened uh where you're like yeah I'm sorry that's how it happened the life is ridiculous sometimes so uh no I just might take care of it all the time and then you never know what happens so yeah have a less serious question you're known forar sense of humor and you speak multiple languages quite comfortably is there a particular language that you find easiest to express your sense of humor and is there an audience that is more receptive than others tough to say I would like to be to have a good sense of humor in any language but I would probably say don't even know why but English is probably a little bit like easygoing language you know so it's like easier to express yourself maybe um but yeah my speak three languages I like to speak them I would definitely like to to learn more and I do think I have like the the let's called the ear to speak other languages and then I'm just a bit too lazy like I don't have much free time and when I do I'm like to start learning new language it's exciting but it's a bit it's a bit of a work and I have a lot of work to do so maybe later return of phrases in English when you were learning it that you found funny or silly from coming from Russian oh I don't remember there are a lot um yeah tough T tough to remember like this but for sure when learning there were a lot of phrases that like catch your eye uh in a way um and especially what is sometimes yeah funny when you start learning language so now when I speak to you I don't think like I don't translate I just speak but at first when you you speak Russian to yourself and then you translate and that's where the funny phrases can come from because you mix up words Etc but now I'm not going to remember anything like this first we're coming up on the fiveyear anniversary of your famous uh when you go to sleep at night uh thing how I'm sure a lot of fans are going to celebrate that on the internet the 5year anniversary do you want people to to celebrate that and to to remember that to be honest uh look there are some things in my career I'm not happy of but the this interview was probably my best ever after the match and uh I absolutely yeah I absolutely love it so if people want to celebrate I'm I'm there for it will danil when you think of Novak winning the Olympics and saying that's the greatest achievement of his career after all he's done what what are your thoughts on what it means as you look at his career as somebody who's a competitor of his amazing I mean like you know Nova Rafa roer we all know they're amazing they're Grand Slam records Etc and so whenever NOA Queen a grand slam you're always in his age um well the last one was here in US Open you're always like Amazed by what he's doing and what is he he's continuing to achieve but you're like we're used to it and then Olympics for me personally I unfortunately I didn't see the match I was in monreal time difference I think I had a practice or something but me personally I thought the way Carlos is uh like going into the match uh won Rolland garas won Wimbledon against svak uh played amazing in Olympics and I honestly thought he's going to win and then Novak 37 years old I I saw some highlights playing maybe the best match of the season I I was amazed by how is he he's able to come into this match where there is a lot of pressure that's the only thing he never won uh and still like be even better than himself usually and bit Carlos who was Unstoppable this year I was uh amazed even more even if I'm already Amazed by Novak so yeah and unbelievable and not much more I can add and when you think of what he says about still motivated to do all the work that's involved something you're very familiar with to do it here to do it in future Majors what goes through your mind same re respect you know he respects the hustle he respects the game respect the work he goes for it goes for it till the end everyone has different routines and he has uh he's at Works um and yeah for sure to to to see this it's a big admiration I would say not sure I would be able to do the same but it's a big admiration yeah okay thank you everyone thank you see you next time