The ATP season restarted officially this week and Daniil Medvedev thinks that will have repercussions regarding the US Open. Many players have shown struggles with fitness and the best of 5 format which will still be employed might prove troublesome to some. On it Medvedev said:

"I'm actually wondering because every player is different. So there are, for sure, going to be players who's going to play a five-hour match and be ready to play even the next day without a day off, which is not the case for everybody."

He continued explaining:

"So I'm actually really interested to see how that's going to be, and I do think that still a lot of players are going to have problems and we are going to see a lot of withdrawals, especially if it's going to be hot because as I said before, after six months without competitive tennis to play out of five is tough."

There were some speculations that the format might be changed to a best of 3 but it ultimately proved just be media speculation as such a move was never considered. Medvedev, when asked about it, confirmed it by saying:

"I mean, I would be happy about it, but I don't think it was even the question, so there is no question."

Medvedev lost to Bautista Agut at the Western and Southern Open in three sets and he will be looking to improve on that performance next week. He is not shy about his ambition to win it as he came close last year in the final losing to Nadal after a long 5 set battle.

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