Medvedev admits taking lessons from Federer: "That's actually how you should be"

Daniil Medvedev adopted a very focused approach to his tennis recently after observing how Roger Federer approached his matches during his career.

Federer was always a very focused tennis player and you could see it in his look. It was a piercing look of a man who simply wanted to beat you. Medvedev observed the same thing while playing and he admitted to incorporating that into his own game. By his own self-admission, Medvedev tried to have fun on the court in his younger years but now he's only focused on winning.

He explained:

“When I was younger, I think I was more kind of, yeah, let’s have some fun. But since I started taking tennis more seriously, now during the match I just want to win, I want to stay focused. I learned it a little bit from Roger (Federer) in a way, because he’s so chill in the locker room, so funny, smiling, and then you play a match against him, you hit kind of a great shot, and it’s Roger, you saw him on TV, he’s your idol, and you kind of try to smile at him or something, and you see, it seems like he’s angry at you."

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He added:

I remember when playing him. And that’s actually how you should be and that’s how I try to be in the matches."