Mats Wilander suggests Rafael Nadal has figured Daniil Medvedev out: 'His game has just kind of stumbled'

Mats Wilander believes that Rafael Nadal’s win over Daniil Medvdev at the Australian Open is a hint that the Spaniard has worked out how to play against the Russian. Nadal won the 2022 Australian Open when he defeated his 26-year-old rival, and the current world No. 1.

That ranking is one that Nadal is closing in on ahead of the US Open, which starts on August 31. Ad Speaking to Eurosport, Wilander explained how many of the top players found it tough to approach Medvedev with his changing approach to the sport. US Open‘Swiatek must come to grips with it’ – McEnroe gives his take on US Open ball debate3 HOURS AGO He said: “I think that players, they were not really sure how to play against Medvedev.

Because he's so awkward to play against. And he's so unorthodox in the way that he hits the ball, the way that he moves, the way that he swings the racket, where he stands in the court, and the way he serves; the tosses all over the place very far in front… I mean, we've never ever seen anything like Medvedev before. And I think that players do not know how to play against him, or at least did not know how to play against him.” Wilaner continued: “And then he started improving and developing, and he started becoming a little bit more aggressive.

So after he beat Novak [Djokovic], he didn't allow the players to start learning how he played because then he started taking the ball a little bit earlier. And sometimes he would play a longer point and stay further back behind the baseline. «Sometimes he would serve and volley and then he would stay a little closer to the baseline.