The 29-year-old is known for his singles play, but he has also dabbled in doubles, most notably at the 2024 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
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In August, he is set to partner compatriot Mirra Andreeva in the US Open Mixed Doubles tournament, and there is one particular opponent Medvedev would like to take on in New York.<\/p>\n
Daniil Medvedev wants to play against Sara Errani in the US Open Mixed Doubles tournament<\/p>\n
At the 2024 Olympic Games, Daniil Medvedev and Mirra Andreeva faced a daunting task in their first round match, facing off against Italy\u2019s Sara Errani and Andre Vavassori.<\/p>\n
The Russians were comfortably beaten, with Errani and Vavassori winning 6-3 6-2.<\/p>\n
The result was not too surprising. Errani has won seven Grand Slam doubles titles, while Vavassori has won two, both with Errani. The pair are defending US Open and French Open mixed doubles champions. Errani also won the Ladies Doubles Gold Medal with Jasmine Paolini at the 2024 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
Medvedev was asked if he would like the chance to enact revenge against Sara Errani during 2025\u2019s US Open Mixed Doubles tournament, with the reporter citing Medvedev\u2019s struggles against Errani\u2019s serve at the Olympics. The reporter described Errani\u2019s serve as \u2018maybe the worst serve in tennis\u2019<\/p>\n
Medvedev said: Yeah, first of all, I\u2019d like to play Sara in singles [smiling]. Maybe with this serve I could have done better because you have bigger court.<\/p>\n
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\u201cNo, they play[ed] amazing, with Andrea. I think they won for sure US Open last year but maybe like Indian Wells or something else I think they won this year, or maybe Roland Garros? French Open, yeah, exactly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have this good chemistry where of course maybe it would be even better if she would serve better, and Andrea takes big space at the net, so at one moment it stresses you. <\/p>\n
\u201cI remember at the beginning of the match I was returning her serve well, and we got a bit unlucky with Mirra not to break, and then step by step during the match, I felt so much pressure that I have to do good with this serve that I actually was suddenly struggling.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor sure would love to play them in US Open. It\u2019s going to be fun event. Whoever we have, we\u2019re going to try to do better than in Olympics.<\/p>\n
The reporter asked a follow-up question: \u201cHave you ever seen anything like it before? Returning a serve that\u2019s like less than 100 kilometers per hour?\u201d<\/p>\n
Medvedev replied: \u201cI think Learner was serving second serve pretty slowly. Learner Tien, Australian Open. But I don\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome second serves can be slow. Frances Tiafoe sometimes does it on purpose, can do a very slow second serve. In singles it doesn\u2019t bother me. I probably prefer a slower serve than a faster serve in singles. For example, playing against Reilly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Medvedev\u2019s big rankings opportunity<\/p>\n
There can be no denying that Daniil Medvedev has struggled on the ATP Tour in 2025. However, he has been presented with a huge opportunity in the latter half of the year.<\/p>\n
Remarkably, the Russian only has 620 points to defend for the rest of the season. He not only has less pressure going into tournaments, but he also has ample opportunity to rise back up the rankings.<\/p>\n
Medvedev has slipped down the rankings after losing in the first round of Wimbledon. The Russian lost a lot of ATP points at SW19, as he reached the semi-finals of the 2024 tournament.<\/p>\n
Medvedev, who is a former world number one, faces former junior world number one Wu Yibing in the next round of the Washington Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev has won his first match at the Washington Open, defeating Reilly Opelka in three sets. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[11818,13446,101,118,56,54,55,7259],"class_list":{"0":"post-20819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-daniil-medvedev","9":"tag-sara-errani","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}