{"id":93306,"date":"2025-07-26T05:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T05:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/93306\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T05:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T05:38:14","slug":"daniil-medvedev-says-if-he-honestly-thinks-he-can-still-beat-carlos-alcaraz-and-jannik-sinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/93306\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev says if he honestly thinks he can still beat Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Daniil Medvedev is through to the quarter-finals at the Washington Open after defeating Wu Yibing in straight sets. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/daniil-medvedev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medvedev<\/a> won 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the last eight in the American capital, where he\u2019ll face Corentin Moutet for the second time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian, a hard-court specialist, will be looking to pick up some big results on his preferred surface in the North American swing after a largely disappointing first half of the season.<\/p>\n<p>He is yet to pick up a title in 2025, and in March, he fell out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATP<\/a> top ten for the first time since 2023.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2226841209-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Daniil Medvedev celebrates after reaching the quarter-finals at the Washington Open.\" class=\"wp-image-114964\" \/>Photo by Scott Taetsch\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>His dip in the rankings comes at a time when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> are continuing to dominate men\u2019s tennis, having split the last seven Grand Slam titles between them. <\/p>\n<p>In his post-match press conference, Medvedev mentioned the \u2018new two\u2019, and said where his current level  is at compared to theirs. <\/p>\n<p>Daniil Medvedev claims he can return to a level where he can \u2018beat anyone\u2019<\/p>\n<p>After his victory over Wu, Medvedev said of his form: \u201cFirst of all, from experience. I know that when I\u2019m playing good, I can beat anyone. Pretty sure anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe against Carlos and Jannik the odds are going to be on their side, but I can still beat them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgainst any other player, I beat probably a lot of them many times. Less guys I played one or two times.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev\u2019s head-to-head record against Sinner and Alcaraz: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-links multi\">\n<li>Against Sinner: 7 wins, 8 losses<\/li>\n<li>Against Alcaraz: 2 wins, 6 losses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI know that when I come back to this level, I can beat anyone, so that\u2019s where the optimism is coming from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just work hard, try to find back this rhythm, this level, and then results can come and rankings can come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2226840344-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Daniil Medvedev in action at the Washington Open.\" \/>Photo by Scott Taetsch\/Getty ImagesDaniil Medvedev gives an update on his fitness at the Washington Open<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev had previously been struggling for a while with shoulder pain that hindered his ability on certain shots.<\/p>\n<p>The former US Open champion said: \u201cIf I remember right, [the pain] would be something like middle 2023 to middle 2024, something like this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor sure when you\u2019re painful almost all the time, and sometimes less, sometimes more, it\u2019s not easy, because many practice we want to work on serve, we couldn\u2019t do it, because I would be scared to make it more inflamed, et cetera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we found a way to work with it, and I don\u2019t have pain since [the] middle of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I had it, it would bother me on the forehand a little bit. But it\u2019s more of a general energy. Whenever you have any pain, it\u2019s not easy to play with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old will now look ahead to his bout with Moutet, as he continues his pursuit of a maiden title in Washington. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev is through to the quarter-finals at the Washington Open after defeating Wu Yibing in straight sets.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,1466,3099,1824,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-93306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","10":"tag-daniil-medvedev","11":"tag-jannik-sinner","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114917926753191028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}