MUBADALA CITI DC OPEN

July 24, 2025

Daniil Medvedev

Quick Quotes

D. MEDVEDEV/W. Yibing

6-3, 6-2

Q. Hello. I watched your practice this morning. You were practicing with a student at Florida State University. What are you looking for in practice before a match? Is there anything specific, or are you just sort of trying to warm up a bit?

DANIIL MEDVEDEV: No, nothing specific, especially just before the match. It's more of a routine. I even thought sometimes when I play at 11:00, I thought to maybe not do the warmup. So used to it, so you're always kind of scared to try it, so I never tried it yet.

Here I wake up easy, for whatever reason, in Washington. Maybe the sun comes up early, I don't know. So it's okay.

In terms of sparring partners, just don't miss every second ball and it's going to be fine. He played good. Yeah, so it was okay. You just warm up some of your shots more even like you warm up the heart rate, and it's also more of a routine.

Q. You have been serving really well the last couple of matches. You mentioned on court feeling some pain in the last years. What is the timeline of that?

DANIIL MEDVEDEV: No, it was, if I remember right, would be something like middle 2023 to middle 2024, something like this. For sure when you're painful almost all the time, and sometimes less, sometimes more, it's not easy, because many practice we want to work on serve, we couldn't do it, because I would be scared to make it more inflamed, et cetera. But we found a way to work with it, and I don't have pain since middle of '24.

But again, it's rare these days to have fast hard courts with fast balls. Whenever I have it, I serve good. That's why I served well in like 2019, '20, '21. Here I'm serving well. I'm happy about it.

Q. Does it bother you on any other shots?

DANIIL MEDVEDEV: Well, when I had it, it would bother me on the forehand a little bit. But it's more of a general energy. Whenever you have any pain, it's not easy to play with it.

You go through it. I played US Open final was amazing run for me, and I had pain in my shoulder every single day. It's not the end of the world, but for sure it's better to play pain-free. I don't have any pain right now so it's good.

Q. You talked about not having extra time after Wimbledon. How did you spend those weeks?

DANIIL MEDVEDEV: After Wimbledon we went to Ibiza and it was fun. It was my first time there, and I heard only good things from my friends that you can do anything there. You can go to the sea and chill, can go to the party or whatever. We kind of did all of it, so it was pretty fun.

I always try to have some kind of time to relax and then come back to the practice court. We had, like, meeting with my team just trying to work even harder, and it's great that it's working here for couple of matches.

Q. I feel you have been pretty optimistic about your form even if the results haven't always been what you wanted. Where does that optimism come from?

DANIIL MEDVEDEV: First of all, from experience. I know that when I'm playing good, I can beat anyone. Pretty sure anyone. Maybe against Carlos and Jannik the odds are going to be on their side, but I can still beat them.

Against any other player, I beat probably a lot of them many times. Less guys I played one or two times. I know that when I come back to this level I can beat anyone, so that's where the optimism is coming from.

It's just work hard, try to find back this rhythm, this level, and then results can come and rankings can come.

Q. On the rising influencer videos, the ATP is doing it more for social media stuff, having you guys do stuff like asking for dating advice and questions they have. I know you've gotten that one. What do you think of this whole general shift towards having you guys do those videos? And do you ever get nervous about the questions or if they are trying to make an embarrassing moment for you when they're doing these sorts of things?

DANIIL MEDVEDEV: Never really get nervous, but when it's a dating question and you're married with two kids, can get a little bit tricky if you're thinking about the answer.

Look, I'm not an influencer, like my Instagram has 1,300,000, and I could use it much more, right? I could make more videos. But I'm someone, I prefer when it's my job like here, I prefer to give my all, in a way.

But when I'm outside of it, I don't want to spend time thinking about my Instagram or things like that. I prefer to spend time with my family. Even if I do something fun, if I make a video of it, I send it to my friends rather than everyone to know what I'm doing.

But it's a fun world also in terms of social media and everything. So I'm okay to do some fun stuff with some of these guys. It's a lot of fun, yeah.

Q. Can you talk about the logo on your shirt, your personal logo, how that came about? Also, there are other players like Taylor Townsend has started her own brand with her initials. What is the value of that or importance of that for a player?

DANIIL MEDVEDEV: Yeah, it's not my own brand. It's a logo together with Lacoste. I think it's important to mention that for them, because they developed it together with me, and it was a lot of fun, because when they kind of brought the idea of doing it, I was of course for it. It means that you achieved something great in tennis if the company that you are cooperating with, working together, which we became friends, you know, tries to make, let's say, this step forward with you.

I was kind of a bit nervous because it was in Australia. I lost early. It was 2023. I was, like, damn, that was the first tournament with my logo and I screwed it up. And then I made a good run of five tournaments, five finals, four wins. I was, like, good, good (smiling).

It's just fun to have your own logo and your own things, own collection, always talking to them about the colors you like, maybe this T-shirt I like it less than some other ones. For example, the collection I'm playing in now I absolutely adore it. Yeah, it's just a fun ride.

Q. When you have a tournament result that's not what you were hoping for or you thought you could have done, does that bother you and stay with you, or are you good at forgetting that? Or do you like to know that it happened and can now wonder what to change next time?

DANIIL MEDVEDEV: Well, first of all, definitely don't like it when it happens. Better to play finals. It is better if you lose to try to turn it into a positive, but the fact is it's bad enough to lose. It's always better to win.

You cannot win all the time. I'm kind of in the middle. It does bother me. Like after Wimbledon, I was sitting there, and I actually felt like I didn't play that bad. And you're losing first round, you know that the guy is probably going to lose second and third round. He did lose second round.

Like, damn, I didn't play that bad. I'm losing first round of a Grand Slam second time in a row, Australian was second round, it does bother me. And at the same time, then couple of days in Ibiza, you're, like, the only way forward is to work hard.

If it doesn't work out, then that's life. Life is up and down with some bumps on the road, and I always sometimes take a good example of some players, you know, they are like 30 and they do an amazing results on me, like best results of their life. Some players after 30 just drop down.

So everything is possible. I just need to try to do my best. Again, I felt like maybe some things this year I could have done better, like on practice court, et cetera, maybe. I'm not sure about it. But I was, like, if I want to try to be better, I need to do these things better, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Q. Speaking of practice partners, you practiced with Bonzi here?

DANIIL MEDVEDEV: Yeah, yeah.

Q. I know you were shocked by his level at Wimbledon, so how was his level here on the practice court?

DANIIL MEDVEDEV: It was actually very good. He made one bad game on serve, which he didn't do at Wimbledon at all. I broke him, and then I didn't serve for the set. So we were finished. I think I won the tiebreak, which is actually funny because I lost the two tiebreaks in Wimbledon.

But practice is not the same, but he was playing well, and it was a little bit funny how it came about, because my coach comes to me, and he's, like, Bonzi asked me to practice. I'm, like, Yeah, whatever. Let's do it. I don't care.

Q. I thought maybe you were curious to see if he could repeat this magical level.

DANIIL MEDVEDEV: No, no, because in practice it doesn't matter. But he did play well.