Former world number two among juniors Anastasia Pivovarova commented on the defeat of Russian Daniil Medvedev to Italian Jannik Sinner in the Australian Open final. In his comments to socialbites.ca, he stated that Medvedev got tired in the third set.
“Danya missed the opportunities in the third set because it seems to me that she did everything she could in the first two sets. Collectively, he played practically without mistakes, showed a very good level of tennis – went forward, shortened, played the shortened back, scored a wonderful volley. Unfortunately, mistakes were made in the third set and the fatigue expected from the beginning became visible. It was clear that things were getting harder for him.
Of course Sinner took advantage of this. Medvedev did his best. The only thing is that I want him to attack more starting from the second serve. There were moments when the score was tied on Sinner’s serve and the Italian player served poorly in the first serve, and he could have taken advantage of this chance. This will add more pressure to Sinner’s serve and shorter rallies in Daniil’s favor. Unfortunately, she could not win the third set and then things became even more difficult, the freshness disappeared before our eyes,” said Pivovarova.
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.
It was before named The key moment of the match between Sinner and Medvedev.