Farewell to the tournament number two. Will Medvedev’s Roland Garros conqueror fulfill Rus’ optimistic prediction?

The first round of Roland Garros is history. It also brought some surprising results and the next stages of the Paris Grand Slam will have to do without some big names. One of them is Daniil Medvedev.

The French Open seeded number two was one of the most closely watched players in the tournament’s pavilion. It was awaited with a certain degree of curiosity how he would perform this year on a surface he doesn’t like at all. Yet he won the prestigious Italian Open on it a week before the start of the only clay grand slam and was considered at least a dark horse of the top tennis event.

The Russian tennis player ran into Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wilde, a player from the end of the second world hundred. And he couldn’t outplay him. He tried for a long time. The marathon five-set battle took more than four hours. Medvedev fell in sets 6::7, 7::6, 6::2, 3::6, 4::6.

Medvedev saw his clay court season come to an end

The Moscow native has one certainty, he always takes a breather at this time of the year. His unpopular passage of the year ends with the Paris Grand Slam. In the next few days he will give himself some space to rest and he can also go over in his head the positives that this year’s clay season has brought. It worked out better than other years and Tuesday’s match was not a disaster either.

“I played well today, I tried and tried. I didn’t feel like other times when I was like, ‘Wow, I just can’t do anything here’.Today I played what I was supposed to play. Ijust couldn’t win it,” he expressed his less negative feelings than ever in an interview with the official Roland Garros website.

He also has a more positive view of his future at the French Open. After all, he never believed that he could win a tournament on clay at all. He did, and at a Masters event.

So maybe Medvedev will come to Roland Garros next year with more motivation and desire to prove something here.

The Brazilian’s Future

The world number two was not too critical of himself, but instead praised his opponent’s performance. Brazilian tennis player Thiago Seyboth Wild successfully qualified for the first time in his career at the French Open this year and his season has been very successful, albeit at lower category tournaments.

He has won 36 matches in South American Challengers in particular. He has only ten defeats. He has triumphed in two events.

“If he plays this way, he will become part of the ATP’s elite 30 by the end of the year,” the 27-year-old Medvedev estimated the Brazilian’s tennis future. He believes that Seyboth Wild can sustain playing at a similar level.

After all, it would be a shame from his point of view if he only put on such a performance against him.

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