World men's tennis has another young promise, the Russian Daniil Medvedev , who is preparing for the generational change of the stars after getting his first 1,000 Masters title this Sunday by winning the Cincinnati title after winning 7-6 (3) and 6-4 to the Belgian David Goffin .
Medvedev, 23, became the best tennis player who was at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati throughout the week and more after winning in the semifinal no less than the number one in the world, Serbian Novak Djokovic , who This season he has already won twice to leave the series between the two in 2-3.
Djokovic himself at the end of the semifinal match, which he lost by 3-6, 6-3 and 6-3, acknowledged that Medvedev was one of the best in the world and had to take off his hat before a player who makes his second serve a speed of 206 kilometers per hour and constantly.
He showed it again to Goffin , with whom he now has a 2-1 advantage in the duels they have maintained, and Medvedev confirmed that so far this August he is the best player on the circuit with three consecutive finals in his to have.
Although he had lost the previous two, the Citi Open in Washington against the Australian Nick Kyrgios and the Rogers Cup in Montreal against the Spanish Rafael Nadal .
"It was not easy mentally to overcome the two previous defeats, but I kept up the hard work and avoided suffering the frustration of three defeats in a row in the finals, something that would not have been good," said Medvedev, who acknowledged that with 5-3 his favor in the first set began to feel cramps after three consecutive weeks of competition.
Medvedv, eighth in the world, who on Monday will have climbed several positions in the ATP classification, said that four "incredible" serves he made were those that helped him overcome the situation.
The Russian tennis player is already the leader of the ATP in games won so far this season with 44 wins, including 31 on hard courts, which allows him to have 11 more than those who own the second classified, the Spanish Roberto Bautista Agut and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas .
Therefore, he arrives at the US Open as the most fit player in the hard track competition.
"It's the best way to get to the US Open," said Medvedev. "Although after this triumph I don't generate any pressure, on the contrary, I will have greater confidence in my tennis and in what I can achieve if I do well all the things that I am able to do when I am on the track."
"It makes me feel good," he continued, "that my first title got it here, being the first in my country to get it," said Medvedev, who needed an hour and 39 minutes to beat Goffin, sixteenth head of the series.
The Russian tennis player has become the youngest who won the Cincinnati Masters 1,000 tournament since the Englishman Andy Murray did in 2008, when he was 21 years old.
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