{"id":310087,"date":"2025-08-01T19:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310087\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T19:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T19:58:13","slug":"former-atp-player-accuses-daniil-medvedev-of-stagnating-and-going-backwards-he-is-no-longer-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310087\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ATP player accuses Daniil Medvedev of ‘stagnating’ and going backwards, ‘he is no longer scary’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Daniil Medvedev has found life on the ATP Tour more challenging over the past 18 months.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Russian has not claimed a title since 2023 and he has suffered early exits from tournaments on a more regular basis.<\/p>\n

As a result, Medvedev has fallen out of the top 10 and he is struggling to produce the level of consistency that helped him win 20 ATP Tour<\/a> titles, including a Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n

Looking at his results since the start of last season, a former ATP player did not hold back on where he believes the 28-year-old\u2019s game is at.<\/p>\n

\"DaniilPhoto by Sarah Stier\/Getty ImagesFormer ATP player Julien Varlet says tennis should \u2018forget the Daniil Medvedev era\u2019<\/p>\n

2025 has been a season to forget for Daniil Medvedev<\/a> so far. The world number 14 has suffered 15 defeats this year and he has just one Grand Slam match win to his name across the three majors played so far.<\/p>\n

Medvedev\u2019s best result was a run to the Berlin Open final, where he lost to Alexander Bublik in straight sets.<\/p>\n

There has been very little else for Medvedev to celebrate this season and while he seems to have been surpassed by other players, Frenchman Julien Varlet thinks the 2021 US Open<\/a> winner has regressed significantly.<\/p>\n

\u201cMedvedev is stagnating, and it\u2019s even close to regressing. He\u2019s no longer scary. He\u2019s not hurting. And then when you\u2019re in doubt, there are two things that help you hold the fort,\u201d Varlet told Sans Filet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, your physique. But he\u2019s given so much that it\u2019s starting to get complicated. And then, above all, there\u2019s technique, and that\u2019s not where he\u2019s best. So as soon as he\u2019s in doubt, he automatically plays less well.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven in 2019, when he had that great part of the season, he didn\u2019t play the short game well, he didn\u2019t volley very well. And he hasn\u2019t progressed. Even though I love him, I think we should forget the Daniil Medvedev era.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniil Medvedev leaves Canadian Open court without his bag after losing to Alexei Popyrin<\/p>\n

Medvedev claimed just one win at the Canadian Open<\/a> before he was beaten by defending champion Alexei Popyrin.<\/p>\n

He took a tight first set but the Australian battled back and secured the next two sets to keep his title defence alive.<\/p>\n

Medvedev appeared to be so frustrated by his defeat that he left the court at the end of the match without his bag.<\/p>\n

This was Popyrin\u2019s fourth Top 20 win of the season, and he was disappointed not to win the match in straight sets after holding a 4-2 lead in set one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like I should have won that first set. I was in the driver\u2019s seat, I felt like I was really comfortable out there, and then something happened \u2014 the same thing that happened earlier this season when I played him [in Rome],\u201d Popyrin said post-match.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of let go and I started feeling my shots a little bit. When that happens, when you play at a fast pace against him, he starts feeling the ball a little bit more.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to revert back to the main tactics that we had, which was more focused on serving, coming into the net and not giving him the same rhythm. I think that worked today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev has found life on the ATP Tour more challenging over the past 18 months. The Russian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79963,27106,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-310087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp-tennis-players","9":"tag-daniil-medvedev","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114955282406564469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}