Gilles Cervara judges Medvedev’s week at the Rolex Paris Masters: “He ran out of fuel” – L’Équipe.fr

On the start of the tournament

“Entering a tournament is always the unknown … You are faced with your doubts, you have to rebuild new certainties for the tournament and it can be fluid or laborious, it depends on a lot of things .. This is a bit like what happened in this tournament. It was neither good nor bad. Just enough to be better than the opponent (Ilya Ivashka in the second round, Sebastian Korda in the eighth) “

On the quarter-final against Gaston

“The match against Hugo is special, you know you’re ‘stronger’ on paper but a match in this context is a trap … Daniil wins the first set by a miracle (7-6) and inevitably it unlocks the rest. Concerning the public, personally I loved living it. We were ready to be shouted, ready to receive tomatoes on the face. Daniil loves adversity. And me too… “

Daniil Medvedev folded in the final against Djokovic. (J. Prévost / The Team)

On the semi-final against Zverev

” Unexpected. Daniil “broke” Zverev in a dimension of play where it’s supposed to be 50-50 (6-2, 6-2). I have rarely seen a player win so many long and tight points as in this meeting. And that is very difficult morally for the opponent. “

On the final

“Well done Novak. I found it much more solid than in New York (6-4, 6-4, 6-4 victory). Fortunately, we won the final that we had to win (smiles). Daniil is doing well in the 1st set because he saves 2 break points at 2-3 and raises his level to dominate Novak. Novak seems very relaxed, yes, but I’m never surprised with him. I just think he felt dominated and that’s a way of turning his back on what’s going on. To then recover from the start of the second set. At the start of this round, there was another important moment that could have passed for Daniil. Same for 3rd. I think he missed a bit (a lot ?) fuel to be more precise, cooler to hold even more against Novak at this level. “

On the start of the tournament

On the quarter-final against Gaston

On the semi-final against Zverev

On the final

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