Medvedev comments on defeat to Norrie in first round of Roland Garros
World No. 11 Daniil Medvedev commented on his defeat to Cameron Norrie in the first round of Roland Garros with a score of 5/7, 3/6, 6/4, 6/1, 5/7. Medvedev was unable to serve for the match with a score of 5/4 in the deciding set.
— It was a tight game, I’m very disappointed that I couldn’t serve for the match and win.
Similarities with the match with Tien in Australia
— You lost to Lerner Tien in Australia in a similar way. Is there much in common?
— My career is long, I have won many such matches. For example, a year and a half ago, which is actually not long ago, I pulled out such matches. This season I have already lost, if I remember correctly, three times when I served for the match. Obviously, I need to be better at this.
About the judge's unshaken hand
— You didn’t shake the referee’s hand after the match.
— I just forgot about it. About five minutes after the match I thought about it: did I forget to shake his hand? I thought maybe not. When I see him, I will tell him personally that I have no problems with him, I have great respect for Rene [Lichtenstein].
Changing attitudes towards defeat
— How does your attitude towards defeats change? If you compare, for example, a lost Grand Slam final and how you feel now.
— Such defeats are felt in about the same way. Here, for example, in the first rounds I lost three five-set matches, each time it was almost the same: a couple of days, maybe a week you don’t feel so good, the next tournament can be difficult, a change of surface. But work in training helps, there you just wait until you emotionally go back up.
Losing in a Grand Slam final is a different matter, of course. In terms of the energy around it is completely different. Although also: losing to Rafa was very painful, but not to Yannick in Australia last year, because I was already dead, and he played beautifully, - Sports quotes Medvedev as saying.
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