Daniil Medvedev ‘should be ready for Roland Garros’ as he gives his verdict after Geneva Open defeat

He felt fine physically during his first match in six weeks, but Daniil Medvedev admits he was not “in the zone” as he went down against Richard Gasquet at the Geneva Open.

Playing for the first time since undergoing a small procedure to treat a hernia, Medvedev didn’t really get into top gear as he suffered a 6-2, 7-6 (7-5) defeat in 90 minutes against Gasquet.

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After getting off to a decent start in the first set, the world No 2 lost his way as he was broken in games five and seven. Gasquet then also broke in the opening game of the second set, but Medvedev was back on serve in game six only to then lose the tie-breaker.

“It’s tough. I don’t play my best tennis on clay courts. I know that I am capable of making some good results as I did in the past. But for this, I kind of need to be in the zone, which I was not today,” the reigning US Open champion told the official ATP website.

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“When I’m not in the zone on hard courts, sometimes during the tournament, during the match, I can try to turn it around and sometimes it doesn’t happen.

“On clay [it is] much tougher and usually from what I remember most of the matches — not all of them, but most of them — I’m losing because it’s tough for me to turn something around unless everything goes well straightaway and that’s what