Daniil Medvedev will miss the next few weeks on the ATP Tour. In a message posted on Twitter on Saturday April 3, the Russian tennis player, world number two male, announced that he had been operated on for a hernia and was absent ” probably a month or two ” to recover.
“ Hello everyone. For the past few months, I’ve been playing with a small hernia. I decided with my team to make a small intervention to solve the problem. I will work hard to be back on the pitch soon. Thanks for all the support”added the player, unfortunate finalist of the Australian Open at the start of the season.
Hi everyone. The last months I have been playing with a small hernia. Together with my team I have decided to have… https://t.co/2YevViR3rP
After Rafael Nadal, injured in a rib during the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells, where he lost in the final against the American Taylor Fritz, it is therefore a new absence of mark for the men’s circuit while the clay season is coming. Not very fond of the surface, Medvedev, 26, will therefore very likely miss the Masters 1000 in Monte-Carlo (from April 11 to 18), Madrid (from April 26 to May 8) and Rome (from April 2 to 15). may).
The place of world number one is moving away
Above all, the Russian could also miss Roland-Garros (from May 22 to June 5), the second Grand Slam of the season, where he reached the quarter-finals last season. The absence could cost him dearly in his quest for the world throne. The Russian became world number one for three weeks in early March, before giving way to Serbian Novak Djokovic on the 21st.
Since then, Daniil Medvedev has failed to maintain his level of performance, the one which notably allowed him to win his first Grand Slam last season by depriving Djokovic of the calendar Grand Slam in the final of the US Open. Favorite of the Miami Masters 1000, the finalist of the last Australian Open was eliminated Thursday in the quarter-finals by the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, the defending champion, losing 7-6 (9/7), 6- 3.
Signs in Miami
During this match, he seemed physically diminished, taking a long break in the locker room between the two sets and asking for the intervention of the physiotherapist after having been repeatedly forced to lean on his racket, back bent, to recover after the trades.
“Throughout the match, I was not at my besthe confirmed at a press conference. After the difficult points, I had a hard time catching my breath. I wasn’t recovering fast enough. Maybe it was the heat, but I was dizzy and there was a game where I couldn’t serve. »
Before this loss in Florida, Medvedev lost in the semi-finals in Acapulco to Rafael Nadal, who had already beaten him in Melbourne, after suffering a shock third-round elimination from the Masters 1000. Indian Wells against the French Gaël Monfils.
