{"id":34045,"date":"2025-07-24T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/34045\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T15:48:09","slug":"daniil-medvedev-says-what-a-lot-of-players-have-told-him-about-his-new-racket-which-is-rare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/34045\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev says what a lot of players have told him about his new racket which is \u2018rare\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Daniil Medvedev has returned to winning ways on the court in Washington DC, helped by a new racket.<\/p>\n<p>World number 14 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/daniil-medvedev\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Medvedev<\/a> is the eighth seed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/atp-mubadala-citi-dc-open-2025-preview-who-is-playing-when-prize-money-and-full-schedule\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Open<\/a>, the latest tournament on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATP Tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s already into the round of 16, having won his opening match 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 against American Reilly Opelka.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/daniil-medvedev-sends-warning-ahead-of-wimbledon-as-he-claims-hes-really-excited-for-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Medvedev was excited for Wimbledon<\/a> this year, his most recent tournament before Washington, but that excitement quickly disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>One-time Grand Slam champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/benjamin-bonzi-suggests-the-reason-why-he-was-able-to-beat-daniil-medvedev-in-major-upset-on-day-one-at-wimbledon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Medvedev lost in the first round of Wimbledon<\/a>, suffering a shock defeat to Benjamin Bonzi.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222901017-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Daniil Medvedev reacts during a break in his first-round match against Benjamin Bonzi at Wimbledon in 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-106755\" \/>Photo by Clive Brunskill\/Getty ImagesWhat a lot of players have told Daniil Medvedev about his new racket in Washington<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s managed to recover in Washington, where Medvedev was asked how the new updated edition of his Tecnifibre racket has played so far.<\/p>\n<p>Also sharing how he adjusts his strings to match the current conditions, the Russian said: \u201cYeah, it\u2019s still the same racket. It\u2019s just a different color, which is great. It changes up.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/benjamin-bonzi-suggests-the-reason-why-he-was-able-to-beat-daniil-medvedev-in-major-upset-on-day-one-at-wimbledon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Bonzi suggests the reason why he was able to beat Daniil Medvedev in major upset on day one at Wimbledon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd even a lot of players tell me they like the new color, which is rare. Usually we don\u2019t talk about other rackets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty fun. I like the bag a lot. It\u2019s cool. Inside it\u2019s tougher to see but it\u2019s like this tiffany blue, so pretty fun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut about the strings, I generally kind of try to not change the tension too much. That\u2019s how I am. But still, you just put it up a little bit because it\u2019s so hot so the ball is flying low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What ATP Tour titles has Daniil Medvedev won in his career?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Medvedev will be handed a timely confidence boost with the change, having endured a frustrating season so far.<\/p>\n<p>Having once reached number one in the ATP Tour rankings, he has remarkably dropped all the way down to 14th.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/throwbacks\/what-novak-djokovic-forced-daniil-medvedev-to-do-before-their-match-at-the-2021-us-open-which-was-very-unusual\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What Novak Djokovic forced Daniil Medvedev to do before their match at the 2021 US Open which was very unusual<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YearTitlesTournaments20235ATP Masters 1000 Rome (Outdoor\/Clay)<br \/>ATP Masters 1000 Miami (Outdoor\/Hard)<br \/>Dubai (Outdoor\/Hard)<br \/>Doha (Outdoor\/Hard)<br \/>Rotterdam (Indoor\/Hard)20222Vienna (Indoor\/Hard)<br \/>Los Cabos (Outdoor\/Hard)20214US Open (Outdoor\/Hard)<br \/>ATP Masters 1000 Canada (Outdoor\/Hard)<br \/>Mallorca (Outdoor\/Grass)<br \/>Marseille (Indoor\/Hard)20202Nitto ATP Finals (Indoor\/Hard)<br \/>ATP Masters 1000 Paris (Indoor\/Hard)20194ATP Masters 1000 Shanghai (Outdoor\/Hard)<br \/>St. Petersburg (Indoor\/Hard)<br \/>ATP Masters 1000 Cincinnati (Outdoor\/Hard)<br \/>Sofia (Indoor\/Hard)20183Tokyo (Indoor\/Hard)<br \/>Winston-Salem (Outdoor\/Hard)<br \/>Sydney (Outdoor\/Hard)Daniil Medvedev ATP titles<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev also boasts 20 titles from his fantastic career so far, but has yet to taste any success this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Russian came closest in Halle last month, where the third seed lost the final to Alexander Bublik.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>A first ATP title since 2023 may well be on his agenda this week, where Medvedev has also been showing off his new shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not they and the racket can help him achieve success remains to be seen, but he should be desperate for a first success of 2025, particularly with the US Open rapidly approaching.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth and final Grand Slam of the season gets underway this time next month, a tournament Medvedev won in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>He overcame Novak Djokovic in the final, but has also lost to the Serbian and Rafael Nadal at the same stage of the hard-court Grand Slam.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev has returned to winning ways on the court in Washington DC, helped by a new racket.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[430,26603,99,428,20552],"class_list":{"0":"post-34045","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-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-washington-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34045","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=34045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}