{"id":242885,"date":"2025-10-22T06:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/242885\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T06:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:40:06","slug":"andy-roddick-reveals-what-daniil-medvedev-told-him-about-his-career-in-phone-call-they-had-after-the-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/242885\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Roddick reveals what Daniil Medvedev told him about his career in phone call they had after the US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Daniil Medvedev has seemingly turned a corner in his difficult season after claiming his first ATP title of 2025 at the Almaty Open.<\/p>\n

Medvedev claimed his first title in over two years<\/a> at the ATP<\/a> 250 event in Kazakhstan, at which he was the second seed.<\/p>\n

The success means Medvedev<\/a> has now won 21 titles in his career, all of which have remarkably arrived in different cities.<\/p>\n

But the title arrived amid a challenging season for the former world number one, who has dropped to 14th in the ATP rankings.<\/p>\n

Medvedev parted ways with his coach of eight years<\/a> recently, while he suffered three consecutive first round exits at Grand Slam level.<\/p>\n

The Russian lost in the second round of the Australian Open, before first round exits at the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Medvedev smashed his racket<\/a> after his opening defeat to Benjamin Bonzi, in which he argued with chair umpire Greg Allensworth.<\/p>\n

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READ MORE: Nick Kyrgios says if he thinks either Alexander Zverev or Daniil Medvedev can win a Grand Slam in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

What Daniil Medvedev told Andy Roddick about his career in a phone call after the US Open<\/p>\n

Former world number one Andy Roddick<\/a> has now shared insight into Medvedev\u2019s thought process after the final Grand Slam of 2025 in New York.<\/p>\n

He revealed on Served with Andy Roddick: \u201cI asked if I could talk about this when we were on the phone and he said I don\u2019t really care about that, or anything really.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he called me. He said what do you think? He was going through some feelings after the US Open and we talked for probably 45 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a fan of his game, a fan of his career and what he has done. I am entertained by his petulance. I won\u2019t always defend it as the absolute right thing to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if someone raises their hand and says that I was wrong, pretty quickly afterwards, I normally am a little softer on the stance as long as it\u2019s not hurting anyone else and he just does it and he\u2019s clever and funny.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s crazy to think that someone who has been number one in the world and has now won 21 titles, at that point 20. It\u2019s the greatest thing about tennis, he is still searching.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said if I had bad results three or four years ago, I kind of always knew that it would turn around. Right now I don\u2019t know. That is funny.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t lie to tennis based on past accomplishments. You kind of have to restart over and over. It\u2019s the greatest thing ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like you can ride an Oscar win for roles five years later. You just can\u2019t do it. So props to Meddy. He has really turned his year around.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve Johnson rates Daniil Medvedev\u2019s chances of reaching the ATP Finals<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a trying time for Medvedev, but he will be hoping that his Almaty Open win represents a turning point.<\/p>\n

The hard-fought title may, however, have come slightly too late in his bid to play at the ATP Finals in Turin next month.<\/p>\n

Medvedev, who claimed his only Grand Slam title at the 2021 US Open, currently occupies 13th place in the Race to Turin.<\/p>\n

RankPlayerPoints1Carlos Alcaraz (Qualified)11,0402Jannik Sinner (Qualified)8,5003Novak Djokovic (Qualified)4,5804Alexander Zverev4,2805Taylor Fritz3,8356Ben Shelton3,7207Alex de Minaur3,5958Lorenzo Musetti3,4859Felix Auger-Aliassime3,14510Jack Draper (Injured)2,99011Casper Ruud2,73512Holger Rune (Injured)2,59013Daniil Medvedev2,560ATP Race to Turin<\/p>\n

Discussing the Russian\u2019s chances of making the year-end tournament, former player Steve Johnson said on Tennis Channel: \u201cI just feel as if there\u2019s only one spot really up for grabs.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s that [Lorenzo] Musetti spot. I feel like the other guys, Taylor [Fritz], Ben [Shelton] and Alex [de Minaur], are going to get the job done, they\u2019re going to finish the year strong.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m looking down at the bottom and Daniil Medvedev. I like it. He\u2019s somebody that has had a lot of success.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got to double check, I\u2019m not sure he\u2019s ever won the Paris Masters, because if he has, that\u2019s a bad sign for him because he\u2019s never won an event in the same place. But I see him doing well in the year, especially after his title in Almaty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adding his take, Roger Federer\u2019s former coach Paul Annacone said: \u201cYeah that\u2019s not a bad call at all, because he can get so hot and he\u2019s so accustomed to winning at the top of the game. And the big boost with the title today, it might be just what he needs to finish strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Medvedev has indeed won the ATP Masters 1000 Paris, lifting the trophy in France in 2020 with a final win over Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, he went on to win the ATP Finals shortly after, while he finished as runner-up in the following season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Daniil Medvedev has seemingly turned a corner in his difficult season after claiming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[429,430,26603,99,428,11883],"class_list":["post-242885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-andy-roddick","tag-atp","tag-daniil-medvedev","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242885","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=242885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}