Daniil Medvedev is getting tired of losing Grand Slam finals after dropping a pair and he’s hoping the third time is charmed when he plays in Sunday’s US Open final.
The 25-year-old Russian dropped the 2019 US Open final to Rafael Nadal and lost February’s Australian Open final to world number one Novak Djokovic — the man he’ll face on Sunday.
“The more you lose something, the more you want to win it, the more you want to gain it and take it,” Medvedev said.
“I lost two finals. I want to win the third one. You never know what’s going to happen, but I’m going to try more than I did the first two times.”
Medvedev has dropped only one set in the Flushing Meadows fortnight, saving him valuable energy for the grind to come against Djokovic, who is chasing the first calendar-year Grand Slam since Rod Laver won all four majors in 1952.
“There were some tight moments. There were some tight battles. It’s never easy, but I'm happy that I managed to save a lot of physical abilities, physical power, and mental power.”