The Russian is not ready to defend last year’s title after the Australian Open 2024, the tournament’s press service reports. 

For a similar reason, Medvedev withdrew from the ATP 500 tournament in Rotterdam (Netherlands).

At the Australian Open, the Russian tennis player reached the final, where he lost to the fourth racket of the world, Italian Jannik Sinner, with a score of 3:6, 3:6, 6:4, 6:4, 6:3. The match lasted 3 hours 46 minutes.

Earlier, the Russian tennis player won the quarterfinal match of the tennis tournament in Doha (Qatar).