Russia’s honored coach Vladimir Kamelzon called not to condemn Russian Daniil Medvedev, who lost to Italian Jannik Sinner in the Australian Open final. In his comments to socialbites.ca, he noted that Medvedev showed heroism and Russian character.
“Although Medvedev lost and it was offensive to all his fans, he showed the greatest heroism, the Russian character. When the third set started, I realized that Medvedev could not win, that his strength was exhausted. And I was right. And the game was great, of course; It took almost four hours. Fantastic ending.
It is not possible to blame our man for not being able to finish something, for not putting more pressure on him. And Sinner is the winner of the Australian Open; Let’s all congratulate him on the first, greatest victory of his life,” Kamelzon said.
Medvedev lost to Sinner in five sets and won the first two matches. The match ended with the Italians’ scores of 6:3, 6:3, 4:6, 4:6, 3:6. While the Russian player failed to win the Australian Open final for the third time, Sinner won his first Grand Slam final. At the same time, Medvedev spent a total of almost 24 hours on the field during the tournament; this was more than any other tennis player in Grand Slam history.
Previously Kamelzon named The reason for Medvedev’s defeat against Sinner.