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Daniil Medvedev will always be a tennis nearly man in comparison to Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner admits Andrea Petkovic
ATPFriday, 22 March 2024 at 21:00
Andrea Petkovic asserted that the presence of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner on the Tour overshadows Daniil Medvedev as the main star. According to the former German tennis player, despite Medvedev having remained one of the best for the past 5 years, the younger players have an advantage in scheduling.
Medvedev has already reached world No. 1 and won a Grand Slam at the 2021 US Open, but he is not usually favored in scheduling decisions for tournaments. For example, his second-round victory at the Australian Open against Emil Ruusuvuori garnered attention for ending almost at 4 am in Melbourne with very few spectators.
Petkovic, a former world No. 9, appeared on The Rennae Stubbs Tennis Podcast with the renowned former coach of Serena Williams. Petkovic expressed her opinion that Sinner and Alcaraz will always have an advantage over Medvedev regarding scheduling for prime-time audiences.
"He is in the worst position, he's the number 3 in the world and he's always been number 2 or 3 in the world, which means there's one big star, it's Novak or now Sinner or it was Alcaraz for a while who always get the prime time 7 pm schedule. But he's still a big star, so you put him in a slot where you're not sure whether people will show up, but because it's Medvedev, they will," Petkovic said..
"Even if he is number 1 in the world, as long as there's Alcaraz and Sinner, he'll always be just the next big star. It's unfortunate," she added.
Unfavourable scheduling has been a recurring issue for Medvedev throughout the past few years. As revealed by Stubbs herself, on several occasions, the Russian was scheduled for the last session after Serena Williams' matches:
"I don't know about you Petko, but at the Australian Open, at the US Open last year, and again at Indian Wells, that skinny motherf**ker gets the worst schedules. He gets the worst schedules every time," Stubbs said.
"When Serena played and I was coaching Serena, he was on after Serena every single match at the US Open, 2 or 3 years ago, whenever it was. And we'd see each other the next day, and I was like 'Dude, sorry about the schedule again' and he's like 'Aah it's Serena, it is what it is'."
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