{"id":211897,"date":"2025-10-09T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/211897\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:20:10","slug":"daniil-medvedev-explains-why-he-was-scared-during-his-latest-match-against-learner-tien-in-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/211897\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev explains why he was ‘scared’ during his latest match against Learner Tien in Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is a new sheriff in town on the ATP Tour and Daniil Medvedev is seemingly petrified of Learner Tien! <\/p>\n

In his first Grand Slam back in January, Tien<\/a> stunned the tennis world by knocking the 2021 US Open<\/a> champion out of the Australian Open<\/a> at the second hurdle. <\/p>\n

The American reached the fourth round of that tournament, with John McEnroe praising Tien<\/a> following his win over Medvedev in the second round. <\/p>\n

Across the year, a number of people have been lavishing praise on the sensation, with Tommy Paul a huge fan of Tien<\/a> and right now, he\u2019s the number 36 in world tennis. <\/p>\n

After losing to him again in China last week, Medvedev<\/a> did manage to get the better of Tien in Wuhan, but not without another slog fest of a match that had the Russian extremely concerned. <\/p>\n

\"DaniilPhoto by HECTOR RETAMAL\/AFP via Getty ImagesDaniil Medvedev shares why he was scared against Learner Tien<\/p>\n

Medvedev praised Tien<\/a> for his efforts during yesterday\u2019s Shanghai Masters<\/a> match, and he admitted that he had him feeling a little bit scared. <\/p>\n

During one period prior to a second-set tie-breaker, Medvedev launched an angry rant<\/a> towards the umpire and perhaps the rules in tennis need to change. <\/p>\n

After the match, Medvedev said in his press conference that he was scared that Tien might beat him once again. <\/p>\n

He said: \u201cZero, zero. It doesn\u2019t help (talking with his team). I should be calmer. Learner drives me nuts.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s an unbelievable tennis player. I lost two very strong matches against him, so for sure I was scared to lose again. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really happy that I managed to cross the finish line. The match was up-and-down, but I\u2019m very happy that I managed to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Medvedev shares whether win over Tien feels like revenge<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old will be completely ecstatic to finally get one over Tien, especially after his painful defeat at the China Open. <\/p>\n

Tien weighed in on a debate involving Medvedev<\/a> after their last match and it would appear the American does respect the player. <\/p>\n

Asked whether revenge was on his mind when facing Tien so soon after the China Open, Medvedev disagreed. <\/p>\n

He said: \u201cNo, no. I\u2019m just happy to win. I don\u2019t, I don\u2019t like the word \u2018revenge\u2019, because I would prefer to win all three matches against him. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut since I lost the first two, it just feels great to win the third one. So I\u2019m not thinking about revenge or something. Maybe if we play in the final of a slam, then it would feel like revenge. Now it\u2019s just a great win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Medvedev now faces Alex de Minaur in the quarterfinal, and it\u2019s fair to say he will need to recover pretty quickly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover There is a new sheriff in town on the ATP Tour and Daniil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[430,26603,99,428],"class_list":["post-211897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp","tag-daniil-medvedev","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}