The tennis player who cannot choose and would have preferred to play the Australian Open directly

As part of the North Palmyra Trophies in Saint Petersburg, Daniil Medvedev attended a press conference as a star participant in the team exhibition. There he gave details of a training strategy for 2026 that will be different from previous years due to his decline in the ranking.

“Of course I would have preferred to play the Australian Open directly. But when you are ranked 13th in the world, you have no choice. The situation is different from previous seasons, so I had to play in Brisbane, so to speak, but I’m happy. “It’s a great tournament,” said who finished the 2024 season at number 5 in the world ranking and in 2025, 13.

The Russian only won one ATP title, the ATP 250 in Almaty, and discontinued an eight-year relationship with Gilles Cervara, the coach who led him to win in so many places. Meanwhile… “I have a new team, so the approach is necessarily different. And we won’t be able to see the fruits of all this until later in the season, say, six months from now, a year from now, when everything is clear.”