{"id":51922,"date":"2022-08-31T06:57:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T10:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=51922"},"modified":"2022-08-31T06:57:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T10:57:37","slug":"daniil-medvedev-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/08\/31\/daniil-medvedev-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev Looking to Finding His Mojo Back at US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

2022 has been a very peculiar year for Daniil Medvedev. Mid-third set of the Australian Open final, Medvedev was king of the world, seemingly destined for a period of dominance of men’s tennis, at least on hard courts. It all unraveled from there though. Rafael Nadal came back<\/a> and prevented him from winning a second consecutive Slam, and Medvedev hasn’t been the same since. He lost two other finals (both on grass) and only won a title in Los Cabos; he followed that title up with disappointing losses to Nick Kyrgios in Canada and Stefanos Tsitsipas in Cincinnati. Aside from the mental hit of losing the final in Melbourne for a second consecutive year, the political situation with Russia has affected Medvedev as well and he’s having a pretty disappointing season despite being #5 in the race with a Slam final.<\/p>\n

The US Open has been the stage of Medvedev’s biggest career moments: in 2019, he reached his first Slam final in New York (losing, once again, a five-setter against Nadal<\/a>), and last year he captured his first Slam title, foiling Novak Djokovic’s Calendar Grand Slam quest<\/a> in the process. If there’s a venue that can reignite Medvedev’s season it’s this one. Despite his struggles, many consider him the favorite to win the tournament, even ahead of Nadal.<\/p>\n

A second round match against Arthur Rinderknech is unlikely to be a significant obstacle, but Nick Kyrgios is lurking in the 4th round and Felix Auger-Aliassime in the quarterfinals. Medvedev will absolutely need to be in his best form to return to the final in New York. Without at least a final, Medvedev will have no chance of retaining his #1 ranking and it’ll most likely take a title to do it.<\/p>\n

Many have referred to Medvedev as a “weak” #1 as he hasn’t really been dominant at all; in fact, since his US Open title last year, he only won a 250 in Los Cabos. This is Medvedev’s chances to turn the narrative by winning a second Slam title, while another disappointing result would be a heavy blow to his confidence<\/a> and make it even harder to snap out of his slump. These next two weeks will be key for Medvedev’s career and the landscape of men’s tennis going forward.<\/p>\n

Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2022 has been a very peculiar year for Daniil Medvedev. Mid-third set of the Australian Open final, Medvedev was king of the world, seemingly destined for a period of dominance of men’s tennis, at least on hard courts. It all unraveled from there though. Rafael Nadal came back and prevented him from winning a second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1742,"featured_media":41215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,8],"tags":[18003,10566,498,1219,209,22,135,304],"class_list":["post-51922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","category-featured","category-us-open","tag-2022-us-open","tag-arthur-rinderknech","tag-daniil-medvedev","tag-felix-auger-aliassime","tag-nick-kyrgios","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-stefanos-tsitsipas"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}