Nishikori still titleless for over 2.5 years now. Raonic too.Congrats to Medvedev on winning his 3rd title of the year, 3rd overall and 1st at 500 level. He suddenly seems to have come good and we can only wonder how far he can kick off from here?
As for Nishikori: now 8 finals in a row lost....just ouch!!!
He has reached the 3rd round of the last 2 majors so not too shabby.
Med was ranked 65 after playing on one leg during grass season. Won Winston-Salem, but entries for main draw go back six weeks so no go for Tokyo, but direct entry to Shanghai.
27 UEs all up. Terrible way to end the match, disgusting gift of a break.
Run your stats from beginning of Winston-Salem... I'll run the games numbers... 17-2, 87.2% hold rate, 34.2% break rate, 68.0% serve points won, 41.2% return points, and 54.2% points won. At Tokyo 93.2% hold rate and 56.0% points won. The Med serve has been visibly on fire in Tokyo. 7 UEs against Nishikori shows how crazy consistent his ground game has been. Surely he'll cool down somewhat on serve down the road, but I'm sure they've made some adjustment that along with physical maturation accounting for this big improvement. I doubt the serve goes away back to the previous hold rates or even close. Med is not over powering his serves and has excellent precision.
No serve. I was building up Medvedev ground game by belittling his serve. Both are on absolute fire. I'm not sure Fed has faced an opponent on this huge of a roll for his first match at a tournament.
I never look at stats over such a short period of time. For that I just go by what I've seen. You say 93% hold rate at Tokyo. Not a word about return games, but you give one of the two most important stats - total points won. 56% is ATG level, so if he stays anywhere close to that over a few months time, you are looking at winning slams.
Ah, A visa problem. Sounds like she didn't take care of the paperwork in time.Med was ranked 65 after playing on one leg during grass season. Won Winston-Salem, but entries for main draw go back six weeks so no go for Tokyo, but direct entry to Shanghai.
Unfortunately they edited the most hilarious part where he trolls his girlfriend who got rejected from Australia for visa problem.
34.2% break rate for the larger period. It might have been a hair lower in Tokyo, 33.2% comes to mind. I agree on the shortness of period. Med will not continue at a 56% rate. As you well know 53-54% is excellent so Med's looking very good.
Sucks on clay. Played one legged on grass, fave surface. He really was not anywhere near as good when he won Sydney. The way he finished Sydney against Demon with a wildly biased hometown crowd was epic, but level nowhere near what he summoned this week. Winston-Salem was a step up, but Med was just better there and not on fire.
When even seasoned geezers like Dimitrov, Raonic, and Nishikori are struggling due to strong era, what can you reasonably expect from the likes of Rublev, Khachanov, and Medvedev? Med waiting for Federer syndicate to pay enough in bribe money to bulldoze over clay season. One legged Medvedev derailed on museum circuit.
