{"id":220500,"date":"2025-10-13T02:31:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220500\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T02:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T02:31:11","slug":"daniil-medvedev-responds-when-asked-if-he-is-back-after-losing-in-the-shanghai-masters-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220500\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev responds when asked if he is ‘back’ after losing in the Shanghai Masters semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Daniil Medvedev was unable to continue his run at the Shanghai Masters after losing to Arthur Rinderknech in the semifinals.<\/p>\n

Medvedev split with his long-term coach<\/a> after losing in the first round of the US Open<\/a>, and has since been working with former Australian Open<\/a> champion Thomas Johansson.<\/p>\n

This appears to have made a difference to the former world number one, with Medvedev beating Alex de Minaur<\/a>, Learner Tien<\/a> and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a> to reach the last-four in Shanghai.<\/p>\n

However, Medvedev<\/a> was unable to continue this run, with Rinderknech setting up a Shanghai final with Valentin Vacherot<\/a> in a family affair.<\/p>\n

\"ArthurPhoto by Qian Jun\/MB Media\/Getty ImagesDaniil Medvedev suggests if he thinks he is back to his previous form<\/p>\n

Medvedev is a former US Open champion<\/a> and has been the world number one, but he has not won a single title since the Italian Open<\/a> in May 2023.<\/p>\n

This has caused him to fall to world number 18, which is Medvedev\u2019s lowest ranking since 2019.<\/p>\n

However, after reaching the semifinals in Shanghai, Medvedev is set to climb four places back up the ATP<\/a> rankings again.<\/p>\n

When reflecting on his defeat to Rinderknech in an interview with Russian outlet Tennis Bolshoi, Medvedev was asked if he now thinks he is back.<\/p>\n

While Medvedev admitted that this was a good step in the right direction, he suggested that he needs more to be feeling like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot quite, because in order for this feeling to exist, I know that I am capable of more,\u201d answered Medvedev. \u201cAnd even in this season, which is very bad, this was not the first Masters semifinal. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf I could reach the final and, of course, win then such a feeling might exist. But it\u2019s still positive, step by step I will try to improve my game and try to play even better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniil Medvedev explains why he was going for such big second serves vs Arthur Rinderknech<\/p>\n

Medvedev lost to Rinderknech, 4-6 6-2 6-4, in a closely fought contest which saw a very interesting tactic used in the last game of the match.<\/p>\n

In the deciding set, Medvedev was serving to stay in the match and was under a lot of pressure to do so, with Rinderknech really going for the returns.<\/p>\n

As a result of the stakes on the line, many players would be cautious on their second serves, but that was not the case for Medvedev.<\/p>\n

These brave second serve options had mixed fortunes, with Medvedev able to save one match point with it, while affording a costly double fault to give Rinderknech the match on the other.<\/p>\n

When asked about this, Medvedev explained the thought process behind it, \u201cYeah, he had important moments today, let\u2019s say he hit the ball well and hit the target. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo I felt that if I served a normal second serve, I think he was already on match point with the courage. He would have slapped and most likely hit. So I decided that I would rather take the risk. It worked once, but not the second time.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is little time for Medvedev to now reflect on this defeat, as he is set to play the ATP 250 event in Almaty, Kazakhstan next week.<\/p>\n

The draw for this tournament has already taken place, and Medvedev will play either Adam Walton or Tristan Schoolkate in his opening match after receiving a bye to the second round as the second seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Daniil Medvedev was unable to continue his run at the Shanghai Masters after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[430,26603,91065,99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-220500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-daniil-medvedev","10":"tag-shanghai-masters","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220500","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=220500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}