Medvedev Credits Strings With Newfound Success

After a tough 2022 season, Daniil Medvedev appears to be back in form. The Russian will be in third round action tonight at Indian Wells against Ilya Ivashka. He’ll take a 15-match wins streak into the match having won his last three tournaments including Dubai where he handed Novak Djokovic his first loss of the season.

Medvedev didn’t play well in Australia this year, but he says the string change he recently made is finally paying off.

“Last year was not perfect year for me,” Medvedev said Friday in Indian Wells. “I felt like previous years I played better. So I felt like that’s a good moment maybe to try to change something, because the thing about tennis is when you play good, you are really scared to change something. Like when you win Grand Slams, I was No. 1 in the world, you’re like, why would I change? Then I played not that good end of the season, so I was, like, why not in preseason try to change and see, maybe, maybe not change.

“Technifibre proposed me this new version of strings. I tried six different ones in one day, and I really liked them. I was like, okay, let’s try.

“Then Australian Open was not perfect, for sure a lot of doubts did I make the right choice, maybe I should come back to the old ones. But I felt that’s something that could help me, because again, I gain power without losing too much control or without losing it at all. I was like, okay, I’ll try to continue with those strings, and last three weeks it was working well so probably I’m going to play with it for a long time.”

Medvedev has never made the Indian Wells semifinals, but he’s the favorite.

“I think I can win, honestly, I have to believe I can win anywhere. Roland Garros, I hope I can win it. I was one time in quarters and lost against Stefanos who played a great match, and that was a fight. I was serving for the set. I’m sure on a good day I can win any tournament in the world, because, well, I managed to win different ones many times.

“What makes me really confident is my title in Doha, because similar conditions, very similar, like maybe even the same. I feel like it’s even slower here, but very similar. I managed to get the title there. It’s less matches, four against six.”

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