Daniil Medvedev's 2022 season came to an inauspicious conclusion on Friday with a stinging defeat at the hands of Novak Djokovic at the ATP Finals, but he vowed to bounce back next year.
For the second consecutive match the Russian squandered a late third-set lead, falling 6-3 6-7(5) 7-6(2) to the Serb to finish winless in his three group-stage matches at the prestigious year-end championships in Turin. "Super easy: I sucked," Medvedev said bluntly when asked why he was unable to serve out the match, which was a dead rubber with the undefeated Djokovic already through to the semifinals and Medvedev eliminated. "That's what happened.
It's disaster. What I'm really happy is that this match didn't count in going out of the group, otherwise I would have two matches where I lost serving for the match."But, yeah, that's awful.
I'm going to try to be better next time. I have no other choice."The 26-year-old Moscow native won his lone major title by beating Djokovic in the 2021 U.S.