“I know that football players can run very fast, but it’s hard to say how I will get such a short distance. In general, I'm not the slowest. It will depend on who reacts faster at the start. But Artyom is probably jumping higher. He just needs it, because he often plays with his head. It’s much more important to me how much I push off. Therefore, he will jump higher, and I’ll run faster, ”Medvedev said in an interview with RT.

Earlier, the president of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpishchev said that he considers Karen Khachanov and Andrei Rublev to be the favorites of the ATP tournament in Moscow - the VTB Kremlin Cup.