Félix Auger-Aliassime vs Daniil Medvedev: Betting on a Confident Victory of Daniil

The Russians made it to the semi-finals of the ATP Cup-2022, beating the Italians in the third round of the group stage. Not a feat of the Russian national team, but, without a doubt, an excellent result. Let's see if Medvedev and Safiullin can improve it.

Auger-Alliassime started at the ATP Cup with a defeat by Fritz in three sets. In three games, the Canadian blanked over Norrie and in three games over Alexander Zverev, an actual top player. Auger is performing excellently. However, it is doubtful that the Canadian will continue the winning streak. Daniil Medvedev has gained excellent form and is most importantly motivated. By the way, no matter how the ATP Cup for Canada ends, Auger-Aliassime will enter the top 10.

Like Felix, Daniil started in Sydney with a defeat. The second racket of the world turned out to be weaker than the Frenchman Humbert. Then it seemed that the Russians would not reach the playoffs. Due to the victory of Roman and Victoria in a pair, the Russian national team beat France and then Australia and Italy. Daniil was stronger than DeMinaur and Berrettini. We note that Medvedev has already met twice with Auger-Aliassime. Both meetings ended with the victories of the Russian.

We were in a tough position at one moment especially because Jannik was hitting the balls on the line. Every changeover, every shot we made, we tried to discuss it to see how we could improve in the match. It worked very well. In the end, Roman played unbelievably and we had some crazy rallies and it was an amazing match. I made some bad decisions in the second set so I tried to learn from that in the third. I served well throughout the match and that helped me.

Daniil Medvedev after beating the Italians

If you think about the ATP Cup, it is evident that the Russians are eager to beat the Canadians in the shortest possible time to save resources for the final. At the same time, Safiullin, with all due respect to Roman, is unlikely to earn a point in the confrontation with Shapovalov. This means that Medvedev will most likely have to play twice, as it was in all three group stage games. Medvedev is well aware, so he will try to deal with Felix quickly.