\u201cI spoke to Matt Reid, who\u2019s the coach of Alex de Minaur, and he said [Medvedev is] playing a little more aggressive, they played in the quarters of Shanghai the week before,\u201d Saville said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s just great how Medvedev has done so much and is so accomplished but is still willing to make those improvements to his game and it\u2019s starting to show.\u201d<\/p>\n
Predominantly a baseliner, Medvedev was efficient in the way he approached the net in that Shanghai quarterfinal, winning 14 out of his 16 net points against De Minaur.<\/p>\n
RELATED: In Shanghai, De Minaur notches 50th match win of 2025<\/a><\/p>\n In Almaty the following week, he blasted 34 winners in the final and comfortably led the winners tally over his opponents in his last three match victories at the event.<\/p>\n This newly-aggressive approach appears to be among the factors in Medvedev\u2019s rejuvenation, and since falling to world No.18 after the US Open he has improved his ranking to 14th.\u00a0<\/p>\n It will be fascinating to see whether he can keep rising and restore his status as one of the tour’s most consistent threats.<\/p>\n Listen to the latest episode of The Tennis<\/a> with Xavier, Brie, and our panel of experts. New episode released each Thursday, with daily episodes throughout the Australian Open main draw. Subscribe today and take The Tennis<\/a> with you wherever you go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI spoke to Matt Reid, who\u2019s the coach of Alex de Minaur, and he said [Medvedev is] playing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-237394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}