{"id":71507,"date":"2025-08-10T03:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71507\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T03:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T03:47:07","slug":"daniil-medvedev-explains-why-he-always-found-roger-federer-unpleasant-to-play-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71507\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev explains why he always found Roger Federer \u2018unpleasant\u2019 to play against"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Daniil Medvedev has faced and defeated many greats of the game, from both the previous generation and the new era. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/daniil-medvedev\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Medvedev<\/a> has earned five wins against 24-time major champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/novak-djokovic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Novak Djokovic<\/a>, the biggest of which came in <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\">the 2021 US Open final<\/a>, where he clinched his first Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian was also able to secure a victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/rafael-nadal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Nadal<\/a>, overcoming the king of clay at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATP<\/a> Finals in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>From the current crop of young stars, Medvedev has defeated the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/carlos-alcaraz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/jannik-sinner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> on multiple occasions. <\/p>\n<p>However, the one legend he never managed to take down was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/roger-federer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Federer<\/a>, which the 29-year-old recently touched on ahead of the Cincinnati Open. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"676\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-1138697137-1024x676.jpg\" alt=\"Daniil Medvedev and Roger Federer shake hands at the Miami Open in 2019.\" \/>Photo by Al Bello\/Getty ImagesDaniil Medvedev says why he struggled against Roger Federer<\/p>\n<p>When asked in an interview with BB Tennis if there is a player today he finds unpleasant to play against, Medvedev answered: \u201cNo, probably one is missing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are, in principle, many different players who can be unpleasant, for example, Popyrin, he always plays well against me. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you can find many of them, so there probably won\u2019t be just one. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think before it could have been Roger [Federer]. Unfortunately, when I played with him, I wasn\u2019t there at the level I am at, well, not now, but a year ago. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I can\u2019t say for sure, but it might have been Roger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniil Medvedev\u2019s winless record against Roger Federer<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev and Federer played each other three times on the ATP Tour, the first of which came in 2018 at the Shanghai Masters. <\/p>\n<p>The Swiss star opened his account in the rivalry, winning in three sets at the event.<\/p>\n<p>YearMatchWinner2019Miami Round of 16Federer2018Basel SemifinalFederer2018Shanghai Round of 32FedererDaniil Medvedev\u2019s head-to-head record against Roger Federer<\/p>\n<p>Their next meeting came later on that season on Federer\u2019s home soil, when they faced each other in the Basel semifinal, which Medvedev lost in straight sets. <\/p>\n<p>In their third and final bout in 2019, the 20-time Grand Slam winner handed his opponent one more defeat in the round of 16 at the Miami Open. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev has faced and defeated many greats of the game, from both the previous generation and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[430,26603,4037,99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-71507","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-roger-federer","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71507","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=71507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}