Daniil Medvedev Press Conference | 2024 US Open Round 4

denil if you could your thoughts on the win yeah I mean great match from me you know Nuno didn't play his best level that happens that's sometimes tennis uh you know uh probably in Cincinnati and moral I didn't play my best tennis in the first rounds and I'm happy that I managed to stay consistent third said he played better I managed to come from breakdown happy with my level in all of the matches and looking forward thank you name and affiliation and one question please so I can get around the room Richard denal you you know what it's like to be in the later rounds here and I'm just wondering if anything feels different this year and just where your head is in in general not to be honest feels uh like always at you open happy to play here uh bring in my best level um playing good serving only better and better every match returning better and better so feels great I know that you know the further you go the tougher the opponents can get uh the more the crowd is going to be involved and the more fun it's going to be correct Daniel um what was the difference for you playing him today compared to the Australian Open which was much tighter in four sets yeah to be honest he played worse I mean he even by the stats he made a lot of unforced Errors a lot of double faults everyone is doing double Falls here probably something to do with condition the balls but uh he made like a lot in especially in some games it was like maybe two or three so this gives you an easy break and I managed again to serve much better than the days before so I didn't give him uh this opportunity to break back it's a little bit of extra pressure uh but yeah Nuno is in my opinion more of a attacking player so a lot of the time he's going to decide where the game goes and today he missed so the game went my way and I'm happy about it from the national congrats the mental strength is quite an intangible thing it's not easy to Define and I'm wondering for you if you could pick one top tip or trick that has helped you to develop mental strength on the court uh want to give something good here but uh what could it be well I think mental tip you you're talking like during the match more know whatever whatever is most important to you I think for me what is important and that's a little bit very vague and General but in tennis the one thing that is not easy and good at the same time and it's important to try to like feel it is there is always next chance or the other way around you can win well a grand slam is a good feeling but you can win a ATP 500 which is great and you're really happy and then you play a master thousand and you lose the first round and you already forgot your title because like I I lost the next week so it's important to to continue pushing uh in tennis and every week we play um almost every week we go somewhere we practice we we push forward and for me it was always important to to continue pushing and sometimes it's not easy and the tougher it becomes in your mind the usually the more matches you lose the more tournaments you lose in a row you like we saw some players after Olympics it's tough to push nonstop uh so yeah the mental tip would be just continue pushing try to not get the burnout but continue pushing Howard hi Danielle Howard fendrich with the Associated Press uh have you often had matches delayed for minutes because the uh e the electronic line calling went out because of a fire alarm that's crazy yeah I don't know what happened and it was a little bit strange I made a good return and then like stop stop and we both didn't understand what's happening and then they told us yeah that there is a fire alarm in the room so I I think the most important is everyone is safe I don't know if there was back fire somewhere it just went off um for definitely first time um yeah strange experience but it did help me because the next two points I I felt like he started to get the momentum and this broke it a little bit but yeah that's uh things that we don't control so hopefully it never happens again David tennis.com you mentioned feeling like you were serving better today and it feels like over the last couple of months you've been trying to work through a shoulder injury and how bad did it get where is it at now and did you consider taking time off to really try to heal it 100% yeah I I had not an easy time after Australian Open where it was hurting probably because of Australian Open itself where it was a little bit crazy matches and then I missed some tournaments and I didn't know if like maybe I should take some time off or not um so that was a little bit not easy moment and you know it's like we have a lot of pains that sometimes are there sometimes are not sometimes they're traveling through the and just this one was a bit more at one moment and it yeah the toughest thing was that it was more on practice like in the match you have like adrenaline and you get it going and in practice I couldn't practice Ser so that was a little bit not easy but since uh kind of I spoke about it when I knew it's getting better and when I knew that I'm going to be able to practice it and so now no I'm practicing a lot of serves and I'm pretty happy with my serve uh and yeah okay the middle green Nathan Defector media hi Danielle you've talked in the past about how it took you some time to kind of evolve your style of play to reach your current very unique style so I was wondering if there was a specific match from your past or a specific coach where it really clicked for you that kind of made you become the med of today yeah the coach would be Jill for sure um probably a better question to him I don't know how when was it that I decided that I'm going to return from Far also on the second serve also on the first serve but as I say you know I I'm from what I remember from myself if you look at what was a 2017 when I kind of came on ATP T so probably there are videos like final of chenai I'm pretty sure that all the second serves I was close to the Baseline and first serves I think I was also close and I remember playing one time songa in M 2017 and I couldn't return one surf he beat me easy because I couldn't return one serve and that's probably like one of the matches where you're like going after the match thinking okay what can I do better and at One Moment by returning from far I figured out I can beat a lot of players like this it's maybe not ideal in 100% of the time that's why I'm always trying to work also on practice return from closer positions Sometimes some matches I use it um but yeah there is not like one one exact situation it's more the experience of playing playing playing seeing what's better and developing my style which wins a lot of matches oh Den om young ESPN you were just talking about the mental push to to push yourself to get through the grind how grinding has this year been because we've seen people after the Olympics kind of tire out um how how have you been able to get through this this year I think I think every year is tiring and with Olympics we knew it's going to be just a bit more tiring because it's also grass clay hardcour which usually is just grass hardcour um and for sure the further you go in the Olympics the tougher it is you have even even if it's like sometimes one two three days then it's a decision do I play monreal or not like Carlos you know didn't play monreal for obvious reasons came to Cincinnati finally lost maybe lost some confidence you in tennis there are so many details you never know and finally me of coming from Olympics I didn't play as I wanted in Montreal and Cincinnati and I knew that coming here okay try to restart uh restart a new new tournament every time you come on a new place you want to start something good and uh that's what I say sometimes it's tough but I like to continue pushing sometimes I manage to do it sometimes not here I'm managing well and I'm happy about it this year you tend to to play better in Grand Slam than other tournament during the year how can you explain that is that the motivation of the the big events um don't have like one explanation first of all probably if you ask me I prefer to play better than Grand Slams so that's good um I would definitely prefer to play better in some other tournaments but you know I had some good results like Indian Wales Miami um Madrid was quite good if I didn't get injured but I feel like I have motivation in every tournament I play and I could tell you 10 different reasons or excuses for why I lost this match why I lost that match maybe this day something was hurting or whatever Etc maybe five sets helped me now before I didn't like to play five sets and I still always answer when they ask me three or five five sets I a three but maybe it helps me to work out my opponent or something but yeah in general I hope that uh I'm going to be able to continue playing good in slams and play better than I did lately in other tournaments power if uh if if you do play Yanik um what do you think would be the key for you in that match and how much would you think about or take try to take things away from uh Australia uh yeah I mean I would try to think more about wion than Australian Open but uh against Yanik we had some tough matches uh except couple I mean in Miami for example but uh I feel like in a way we know our game what we will try to bring on the table and then it comes to always you know this moments juice break point maybe try to surprise him or not what he will do what I will do hopefully yeah if it's him who wins against Tommy hopefully we can have a great match uh I know that if I want to beat him I need to be at my best which I managed to do couple of times and it's going to be a great match thank you Tommy uh Tommy in my opinion is having an tremendous year I don't know what is he in the race but probably somewhere close to number eight spot you know uh played him two times honestly should have lost two times W managed to win one time on hardcour which is more important uh and yeah I'm interested to see what he's going to bring to the table today against Yanik maybe try to see what works what not and in my opinion Tommy could easily win when I say easily win you know I don't think he's that of an underdog which we couldn't can think uh and it's going to be interesting also thank you we're out of time thank you everyone thank thank you Dan