Daniil Medvedev makes use of Novak Djokovic instance to clarify how tennis has modified since he arrived on the ATP Tour

Daniil Medvedev has seen males’s tennis change a lot since he first arrived on the ATP Tour.

Medvedev has been on the ATP Tour since 2016, when he was 20 years previous, and since then has become one of the best gamers in males’s tennis.

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During his emergence to the very prime of the ATP rankings, Novak Djokovic has been a constant drive, even now at 39 years previous.

Medvedev has now defined how he has seen tennis change during the last 10 years, making a remark about Djokovic.

Daniil Medvedev claims the stage of males’s tennis has ‘become increased’

Medvedev spoke to BB Tennis at the Almaty Open, where he was requested about how he thinks tennis has modified since he first arrived on the ATP Tour.

The former world quantity one defined that he believes that more prime 50 gamers had clear weaknesses earlier on in his profession, while Medvedev acknowledged that this is not the case anymore. As Medvedev claimed that the stage of tennis is now increased, pointing out some of Djokovic’s very one-sided rivalries.

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“I don’t remember if it was Sascha [Alexander] Bublik who said this or someone else, that there really is a huge difference in the fact that when I started playing, when I came to the tour, there were really players in the top 50, where at least you had a clear game plan that well, there’s a person who doesn’t know how to play on the left,” said Medvedev.

“At the same time, since he is in the top 50, he played very well on the forehand, maybe served very well, as if he tried to play like this. Now it’s hard to name a player who doesn’t know how to play with some kind of shot and he couldn’t play one match where he beats a top player there.

“Whereas before we had scores of 20-0, Novak beat someone 15-0, 15 instances. Nowadays, it seems to me it is very troublesome to discover such gamers. The normal stage of tennis has actually become increased, that’s 100%.”

Novak Djokovic’s most dominant Head-to-Heads

Djokovic is one of the best tennis gamers of all time, and unsurprisingly has some one-sided head-to-heads against a quantity of ATP gamers.

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None other than Gael Monfils, who has just retired from tennis, with Djokovic successful all 20 matches he performed against the Frenchman. Djokovic dominated his matches against the likes of Jeremy Chardy, Milos Raonic and Andreas Seppi.

The energetic participant Djokovic has the most dominant head-to-head against is Taylor Fritz, having won all 12 matches he has performed against the American.

Medvedev has also struggled in his head-to-head against Djokovic, against whom he has lost 11 of his 16 matches against, including lately being defaulted during their encounter at the China Open.

However, Medvedev did win arguably their most important match in the ultimate of the 2021 US Open, where he prevented Djokovic from finishing the Calendar Slam.