It was in yesterday's round of XNUMX against Alexander Zverev that the Russian stepped seriously obliquely and afterwards had to go to the emergency room to X-ray his foot.
"I'm glad that my ankle didn't hurt much during the game. When I warmed up, it hurt quite a bit. I took painkillers so it probably helped. I felt better and better during the match," Medvedev told the ATP Tour.
"The match was crazy. I could talk for 15 minutes about it and I'm so happy to have progressed in such a tough match. It was so tough to play in such high winds," said Medvedev, who also commented on the war in Ukraine.
"Sorry for ukrainian players' sake"
"I'm sorry for the Ukrainian players and what they're going through," says former world number one and 2021 US Open winner Medvedev.
The other day, Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko dropped out of her match against Australian Open champion, Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka after a conversation with WTA boss Steve Simon, whose comments about the war gave her a panic attack.
- I don't know about Tsurenko's situation in detail. It's probably better that she and maybe Sabalenka get to talk about their experiences.
" I say as I always have, that I am for peace all over the world. That's all I can say," Medvedev said.
Medvedev has three straight tournament victories and last night picked up his 18th win on the tour. Now he gets two days of much-needed rest ahead of Saturday's semi-final against home hope Frances Tiafoe.