Daniil Medvedev

Early pro career

Medvedev made his ATP main draw debut at the 2015 Kremlin Cup, partnering Aslan Karatsev in the doubles event.

As a qualifier, Medvedev made his ATP singles main draw debut at the 2016 Nice Open, lost to Guido Pella in three sets. Three weeks later he earned his first singles ATP World Tour win at the 2016 Ricoh Open, defeating Horacio Zeballos in straight sets.

2017: First ATP final and first Grand Slam match win

In January 2017, Medvedev reached his first ATP singles final. In the final at the Chennai Open he lost to Roberto Bautista Agut in two sets. As a result, Medvedev jumped 34 positions from 99 to 65 in the ATP rankings, a new career-high. In February, he continued his good form when advancing to quarterfinals of the Open Sud de France and the Open 13, losing to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Lucas Pouille respectively.

In June, he made it to the quarterfinals of the Rosmalen Grass Court Championships defeating the 6th seed, Robin Haase, and Thanasi Kokkinakis before losing to Ivo Karlović in straight sets. In the Aegon Championships, he advanced to his first ATP 500 quarterfinal by beating Nicolas Mahut and Thanasi Kokkinakis in the first 2 rounds, then he lost to the No. 6 seed Grigor Dimitrov in the quarterfinals. One week later, he kept up his good form on grass by advancing to the semi-final of Eastbourne International before losing to Novak Djokovic.

At Wimbledon he got his first Grand Slam victory by defeating 5th seed and world No. 3 Stan Wawrinka in the first round in four sets. This result was notable as it prevented Wawrinka from completing his career Grand Slam set (i.e. winning each of the four Grand Slam tournaments).^[1] He subsequently lost in the next round to Ruben Bemelmans.^[2] Medvedev was handed three fines totalling $14,500 (£11,200) for his conduct during the match with Bemelmans; Medvedev was fined a total of $7,000 for insulting the umpire on two occasions and a further $7,500 for throwing coins under the umpire's chair.^[3]

2018: Career best year

Medvedev started the 2018 season by qualifying for the Sydney International. He reached the final which he won against Alex de Minaur. The final became the "youngest" since 2007, when 20-years old Rafael Nadal defeated 19-years old Novak Djokovic in the final of Indian Wells. It also became the tournament's youngest since 1989.^[4]

Medvedev later reached the quarterfinals of the Rotterdam Open, losing to Andreas Seppi in three sets.

In August, he won his second ATP title at the 2018 Winston-Salem Open after defeating the home favorite Steve Johnson in straight sets. After losing to Borna Ćorić in the third round of the US Open, he went on to win his first ATP 500 and third ATP title in Tokyo as a qualifier, overcoming Japanese star and No. 3 seeded Kei Nishikori 6–2, 6–4 in the final match. This triumph brought him to a new career high ranking of No. 22 and made him become the No. 1 player in Russia.

Singles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jan 2017	Chennai Open, Chennai, India	250 Series	Hard	Roberto Bautista Agut	3–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	Jan 2018	Sydney International, Sydney, Australia	250 Series	Hard	Alex de Minaur	1–6, 6–4, 7–5
Win	2–1	Aug 2018	Winston-Salem Open, Winston-Salem, United States	250 Series	Hard	Steve Johnson	6–4, 6–4
Win	3–1	Oct 2018	Japan Open, Tokyo, Japan	500 Series	Hard	Kei Nishikori	6–2, 6–4

Futures and Challenger finals

Singles: 6 (5 titles, 1 runner-up)

Legend
Challengers (1–1)
Futures (4–0)

Result	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	10 August 2014	Futures	Telavi, Georgia	Clay	Gianluca Mager	3–6, 6–2, 6–2
Winner	12 April 2015	Futures	El Kantaoui, Tunisia	Hard	Tom Jomby	6–4, 6–0
Winner	30 May 2015	Futures	Moscow, Russia	Clay	Ivan Gakhov	6–4, 6–1
Winner	20 February 2016	Futures	Trimbach, Switzerland	Carpet (i)	Adrien Bossel	6–1, 6–3
Runner-up	13 August 2016	Challenger	Portorož, Slovenia	Hard	Florian Mayer	1–6, 2–6
Winner	11 September 2016	Challenger	Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France	Hard	Joris De Loore	6–3, 6–3

Doubles: 10 (4 titles, 6 runners-up)

Legend
Futures (4–6)

Result	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2 August 2014	Futures	Telavi, Georgia	Clay	Florent Diep	Emanuele Molina Riccardo Sinicropi	6–1, 4–6, [10–3]
Winner	12 September 2014	Futures	Mulhouse, France	Hard (i)	Karen Khachanov	Olivier Charroin Élie Rousset	7–6(7–5), 4–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	31 January 2015	Futures	El Kantaoui, Tunisia	Hard	Aleksandar Lazov	Riccardo Ghedin Claudio Grassi	6–4, 6–7(2–7), [4–10]
Runner-up	7 February 2015	Futures	El Kantaoui, Tunisia	Hard	Aleksandar Lazov	Peter Heller Dominic Weidinger	3–6, 3–6
Runner-up	11 April 2015	Futures	El Kantaoui, Tunisia	Hard	Remy Chala	Anis Ghorbel Vasko Mladenov	6–4, 1–6, [9–11]
Winner	1 May 2015	Futures	Grasse, France	Clay	Julien Dubail	Maxime Chazal Jérôme Inzerillo	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	19 June 2015	Futures	Kazan, Russia	Clay	Vladimir Uzhylovsky	Maxim Dubarenco Vladyslav Manafov	3–6, 6–4, [6–10]
Runner-up	17 July 2015	Futures	Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France	Clay	Zhang Zhizhen	Caio Silva Ricardo Urzúa Rivera	6–7(4–7), 1–6
Runner-up	21 August 2015	Futures	Minsk, Belarus	Hard	Zhang Zhizhen	Egor Gerasimov Ilya Ivashka	1–6, 3–6
Winner	5 March 2016	Futures	Lille, France	Hard (i)	Denis Matsukevitch	David Pel Antal van der Duim	7–6(7–5), 4–6, [11–9]

Wins over top 10 players

#	Player	Rank	Event	Surface	Rd	Score	DM Rank
2017
1.	Stan Wawrinka	No. 3	Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom	Grass	1R	6–4, 3–6, 6–4, 6–1	No. 49

Participations: (3–2)

• indicates the outcome of the Davis Cup match followed by the score, date, place of event, the zonal classification and its phase, and the court surface.

Rubber outcome	No.	Rubber	Match type (partner if any)	Opponent nation	Opponent player(s)	Score
1–4; 3–5 February 2017; Čair Sports Center, Niš, Serbia; World Group; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	1	II	Singles	Serbia	Novak Djokovic	6–3, 4–6, 1–6, 0–1 ret.
Victory	2	V	Singles		Nenad Zimonjić	w/o
1–3; 6–7 April 2018; Luzhniki Small Sports Arena, Moscow, Russia; Europe/Africa second round; Hard(i) surface
Victory	3	II	Singles	Austria	Sebastian Ofner	6–1, 6–2
3–2; 14–15 September 2018; Luzhniki Small Sports Arena, Moscow, Russia; Europe/Africa first-round play-off; Hard(i) surface
Defeat	4	II	Singles	Belarus	Ilya Ivashka	6–7(2–7), 4–6
Victory	5	V	Singles		Egor Gerasimov	7–6(7–4), 3–6, 6–3