{"id":35100,"date":"2025-07-30T19:44:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/35100\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T19:44:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:44:04","slug":"daniil-medvedev-joins-carlos-alcaraz-in-an-exclusive-class-of-players-after-winning-his-canadian-open-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/35100\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev joins Carlos Alcaraz in an exclusive class of players after winning his Canadian Open first round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Daniil Medvedev is through to the next round at the Canadian Open after defeating Czechia\u2019s Dalibor Svrcina.<\/p>\n

Medvedev<\/a> has struggled during the 2025 campaign, picking up only one victory at the three Grand Slam tournaments so far. He was even labelled as a \u2018little bit deluded\u2019<\/a> after losing in the Wimbledon<\/a> first round<\/p>\n

However, the Russian former world number one is entering into a section of the season where he has previously thrived. The 29-year-old won his only Grand Slam title at the 2021 US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Since his maiden Grand Slam victory, the Russian has struggled to compete with the new superstars of the sport: Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n

However, Medvedev has matched one particular landmark also achieved by the two young hotshots.<\/p>\n

Daniil Medvedev\u2019s strong performances at Masters 1000 tournaments<\/p>\n

Following a disappointing loss to qualifier Corentin Moutet at the Washington Open, Medvedev started the Canadian Open off on the right foot, defeating Dalibor Svrcina 7-6 6-4 on Tuesday evening in Toronto.<\/p>\n

As a result, he entered a new conversation with Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As per OptaAce, among players born in the 1990\u2019s, Daniil Medvedev is one of just three players to hold a win rate on hard court at ATP Masters 1000 events of over 70 per cent.<\/p>\n

Medvedev has achieved a win percentage of 70.2 per cent at these tournaments. The only other players to achieve this feat are Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

This statistic is even more impressive when considering Medvedev has played more Masters 1000 tournaments than both Alcaraz and Sinner.<\/p>\n

The Russian is a six-time ATP<\/a> Masters 1000 champion, and he will be hoping to add a seventh at the Canadian Open this week.<\/p>\n

Medvedev wins despite poor serving performance<\/p>\n

Medvedev\u2019s victory against Dalibor Svrcina was far from a vintage performance.<\/p>\n

The Russian struggled mightily on his serve, making only 49 per cent of his first serves during the match, while serving five double faults.<\/p>\n

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The 29-year-old was also broken four times by the Czech player and remarkably won fewer service points than his opponent.<\/p>\n

However, Medvedev managed to claw his way to the next round, where he will face defending champion Alexei Popyrin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev is through to the next round at the Canadian Open after defeating Czechia\u2019s Dalibor Svrcina. Medvedev…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[11933,49,48,17581,619,16151,82,593],"class_list":["post-35100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp-tennis-players","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-open","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-daniil-medvedev","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}