Daniil Medvedev: 'Federer, Nadal, Djokovic are better even in the warm-up'
Daniil Medvedev commented on what makes Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal so special. The Russian player said: "When you play the big three, as we call them, it's always special because the one that has the least slams of them has 16, which means four each year for four consecutive years, which is just unbelievable. I played all three of them this moment of my career. When you go out there and you even warm up with them, you feel that they have something better than us. Let's call it like this. Talking about Roger, yeah, played him three times, three tough times. Could have won one of them maybe in Shanghai. The other two were not even close. It's actually interesting when it's like this because the more matches I play against opponents that I cannot really play, the more I'm trying to push myself higher. For example, this year I think I've beaten I can talk about Edmund and Pouille that I couldn't beat before. They were tough for me. Of course not like Roger, but that's how I take the challenge."
On his many matches played in the recent times, Medvedev concluded: "Montreal, Cincinnati are two Masters that finally of course if I would lose in Cincinnati in quarters, I would have an injury, I would say maybe I should not have played it. I cannot say this. I made two best results of my life so far. That's how it is. Also talking about here, if I would lose the first round, I would be saying, Okay, I go to holidays. I relax my body. We're not talking about any risk. It is how it is. Of course, I'm going to adapt my calendar after this, after this tournament. But hopefully my body will hold this."
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