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<\/p>\n ATP Tour
\n Medvedev keen to keep perspective following Tien loss at Australian Open<\/p>\n
Former World No. 1 now trails American 1-3 in pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head series<\/p>\n
January 25, 2026<\/p>\n
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Daniil Medvedev suffered a straight-sets defeat to Learner Tien on Sunday in Melbourne.
\n By Sam Jacot<\/p>\n
When Daniil Medvedev<\/a> stepped onto court on Sunday to face Learner Tien<\/a> in the fourth round of the Australian Open<\/a>, he was perfect on the season, holding an 8\u20130 record according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index.<\/p>\n A little more than 90 minutes later, however, the first blemish on his 2026 scorecard had been firmly marked. The former three-time finalist in Melbourne had few answers for Tien, who delivered a commanding 6-4, 6-0, 6-3 victory. Still, when reflecting on the defeat, the 29-year-old Medvedev was keen to keep perspective.<\/p>\n \u201cI think I should focus more in general. If we take the past eight tournaments, starting from US Open<\/a>, I played great,\u201d Medvedev said. \u201cI beat a lot of players. I played great against some top players. In general, I was going far in the results. Even here, I won two very tough matches against opponents who played well, [Quentin] Halys and Fabian [Marozsan].<\/p>\n \u201cSo I should try not to focus on this exact match, which was not good, because he outplayed me, so that’s not a good feeling. But I should focus more on the general picture and just continue working the way I did for the last tournaments. If I manage to play good, beat all the players I have beaten in all these tournaments, I can get to where I want. Of course, it’s unfortunate to finish a Grand Slam like this when I was feeling well and confident, but it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n You May Also Like: Tien dispatches Medvedev, sets Australian Open QF clash with Zverev<\/a><\/p>\n After a somewhat testing 18 months, Medvedev has looked closer to his best since the start of the Asian swing in September. The former No. 1 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, now coached by Thomas Johansson<\/a> and Rohan Goetzke, has won recent titles in Almaty and Brisbane and earned Top 10 victories against Alexander Zverev<\/a> and Alex de Minaur<\/a>.<\/p>\n However, he has now lost three of his four Lexus ATP Head2Head meetings against the 20-year-old Tien, who also defeated Medvedev in Melbourne last year. Despite his frustrations with Sunday\u2019s match, Medvedev was full of praise for the reigning Next Gen ATP Finals champion.<\/p>\n \u201cHe played great, super-aggressive. Even when I was making good shots, he was making a better shot back,\u201d Medvedev said. \u201cI didn’t find many solutions today on the court, which is rare, and I didn’t feel that many times in my life like this.<\/p>\n \u201cBut, again, these things can happen. He had an unbelievable match where everything went in. It did happen to me as well a couple of times, and you even kind of feel sorry for your opponent, because, okay, I can go for tweener now and probably with closed eyes and make it. It happens. I should have done maybe something a little bit better to try to disturb this rhythm of his.\u201d<\/p>\n Medvedev is next scheduled to play at the ATP 500 event in Rotterdam, where he won the title in 2023.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATP Tour Medvedev keen to keep perspective following Tien loss at Australian Open Former World No. 1 now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-429803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429803","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=429803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}