On Tuesday in Geneva, Daniil Medvedev returned to the courts, where he struggled against a very strong Richard Gasquet, losing 2-6 6-7(5).
Daniil Medvedev missed the majority of the clay season after undergoing surgery for a hernia earlier in the year, and his first match back did not go well. Richard Gasquet has lived in Geneva for a long time and knows the courts well. Following his defeat, the Russian stayed positive, saying:
“It’s tough. I don’t play my best tennis on clay courts. I know that I am capable of making some good results as I did in the past. But for this, I kind of need to be in the zone, which I was not today. When I’m not in the zone on hard courts, sometimes during the tournament, during the match, I can try to turn it around and sometimes it doesn’t happen."
“On clay [it is] much tougher and usually from what I remember most of the matches — not all of them, but most of them — I’m losing because it’s tough for me to turn something around unless everything goes well straightaway and that’s what happened today."
“[I made] a lot of errors, a lot of double faults. Just was not playing good enough to win. Had maybe some small bright moments in the second set where I maybe could have won the second set."
"But again because I don’t feel as confident on clay as on the other surfaces, that’s why I lost 7-5 in the tie-break, finishing with a double fault. [It is] disappointing, but I’ve had tougher losses in my career and I just need to try to do better next time.”
“Physically I felt not bad today. I think more days of practice and [I] should be ready for Roland Garros because physically, even right now, my body feels good. Let’s see tomorrow morning, because I haven’t played [a tournament] for one month and a half, maybe two months. Hopefully tomorrow morning it’s going to be good also."
“[I will] have some days of practice before Roland Garros so I’m going to try to work physically and also tennis-wise. Hopefully I can try to find the game I had there last year, which is not going to be easy.”
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