Medvedev urges ATP to change balls, points at Rune, Tsitsipas and Korda as injury examples: "It's a big shock to play them with your racquet"

Daniil Medvedev has urged the ATP to change balls linking several recent injuries of players to the balls and how it is to play with them comparing it to throwing a heavy ball.

Medvedev won Rotterdam and Doha which used the same balls as the Australian Open but he's not really happy with them. Speaking ahead of Dubai, the Russian noted that he struggled with getting used to the balls despite the great results at events where they were used.

He said:

“I think the toughest for me was to get used to the balls. I want to talk a little bit more about it because in Australia, I felt like these balls were not good for hard courts, and in the match with [Sebastian] Korda, before the match, I had a very big pain in my wrist, but I thought, ‘okay, that's my problem, so I'm not going to talk much about it’.

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Medvedev expanded:

“Then in Rotterdam, when doubles players came to me and started talking about balls and started talking that everyone has problems with their elbow, wrist, from doubles players, they think it's because of the balls. I'm like, ‘wow, so I'm not the only one’. Now I see [Holger] Rune, [Stefanos] Tsitsipas, who else, Korda, all wrist, elbow, shoulder. So I think that these balls are not good for hard courts. They get very fluffy, and as I say, it's a big shock to play them with your racquet."

He concluded with:

“I think this should be reconsidered because I feel like if I don't do enough job on my wrist every day, it's gonna just, you know, be very painful.”

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