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meIn October, Daniil Medvedev, Russia’s best tennis player, set out for Paris with his wife Daria. The two have been married for a good two years, she is often with him when he is away and of course she knows best how he is. The indoor tournament in Paris Bercy was the penultimate stop of the tennis year, then the ATP Finals in London, and that would be the end of the season. Unlike last year, in which he had won four titles, this time he was missing one more; Medvedev was concerned about his form and told his wife that in this condition he could do little in Paris and also in London. Oh good. In Bercy he won five games and the title, in London too, and in the end, like all ATP Finals winners, he was left under the rain of blue confetti.
With the success in the final against Dominic Thiem (4: 6, 7: 6, 6: 4) Medvedev impressively established the last point after eleven years of tournament at this venue before moving to Turin. It could hardly have had a more fitting ending; The first title in East London was won by a Russian, Nikolai Davidenko. He was one of the young Medvedev’s idols and this time he commented on the final for Russian television. Afterward, the two found time to chat a bit. That was great, he found the successor, and so the circle was complete.
