MATCH POINT
May 25, 2022
4 minutes
By JORDAN RIEFE
“There’s a will to win every single time. I hate to lose.”
For a while, Daniil Medvedev was the tennis pro fans loved to hate. But in recent months he’s becoming the player they love to love. After bawling out the ref and then egging on booing fans at the 2019 US Open, Medvedev fought a gruelling final lasting nearly five hours against a fading Rafael Nadal, but lost in five sets. He bounced back winning a second consecutive title at the Shanghai Masters, becoming the seventh male player since 2000 to reach nine or more ATP finals in a season. With momentum building, he battled through to
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