Medvedev: People thought match against Novak Djokovic was over. Then...
Daniil Medvedev defeated Novak Djokovic in three sets to reach the Cincinnati final. The Russian, speaking in a press conference, said: "Probably when I lost the first set many people could say, 'Okay, Danny only plays two sets so it's over.' I'm happy that I managed to stay there on court, as I say, to find a second energy, to win the first three-setter in three weeks. For example in the first set, playing against Novak, every tough exchange we had I thought, okay, I'm going to fall down. That's it. The match is finished. But finally, after two hours on court and maybe a little bit less, I don't know the time of the match, I came out the winner. Running like crazy in the third set. I'm going to do the best job to be 100% tomorrow. I just knew that -- well, I need to try to win the match. So I took it game by game. I tried to win my service games with huge serves that I managed to make today. As I said, one moment I felt my energy rising. I felt that Novak starts to miss a little bit, and, well, I was amazing today to just take it straightaway all the opportunities I had in the match."
On the upcoming final against David Goffin, Medvedev replied: "I think I will need to play aggressively, especially remembering my match in Wimbledon against David. I felt that I couldn't keep up with his consistency when he's in great shape. At one moment I stepped up my game kind of like today with aggression and I almost won the match, though I lost it, and I think I'm going to have to be aggressive tomorrow."
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