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Medvedev : « A un moment, j’ai décidé de tester mes limites »

Par Jean Muller

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Le compte Instagram Behind The Racket est très inté­res­sant car les cham­pions peuvent s’ex­primer libre­ment et longue­ment. La dernière confi­dence de Daniil Medvedev est à ce point l’un des mots. Le joueur russe parle de son ascen­sion et surtout du moment où il a visi­ble­ment pris conscience de son poten­tiel : « Même après avoir atteint le top 100 pour la première fois, je savais au fond que je n’étais pas profes­sionnel. Quand j’étais sur le terrain, je me donnais à 100%, mais en dehors du terrain, je ne faisais pas les bonnes choses. Je me couchais tard, je jouais des heures de PlayStation et je ne faisais pas atten­tion aux détails. Passer de 70 au top 5 mondial a été le saut où j’ai vrai­ment décidé de me consa­crer plei­ne­ment au tennis. Je voulais enfin trouver mes limites. Je savais que les gens allaient me dire qu’il n’y en a pas, mais je voulais me tester et trouver les miennes. C’était le moment pour moi. »

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“There was always a little bit of a fight between my father and my mother. My mother wanted me to study more, which is why I was in school while playing tennis until I was 18. In Russia most profes­sional athletes are done studying around 12 years old. It might have been the reason I wasn’t as good as my friends for some time, but I have no regrets. There were many tough times before the help from the fede­ra­tion and spon­sors, when there wasn’t enough money. There were matches where I lost and all I was thin­king about was the extra 100 dollars I could’ve made. The toughest period for me was the switch from juniors to pros. I ended at 13 in the world in junior tennis. I started to quickly unders­tand, after playing futures, just how diffi­cult it would be to get from 700 to 300 in the world. You needed to save as much money as possible while trying to win five or six futures as quickly as possible. At the time I was lost, didn’t know how to do that because there were so many other players trying to do the same thing. I remember talking to Bublik, playing a future thirty minutes away from where I lived in France. I was around 700 in the world and asked him, ‘How do you even become 300, it seems impos­sible?’ To this day he remem­bers that line and will joke when he sees me, ‘Come on, how did we become 300?!’ Even after reaching the top 100 for the first time, I knew deep down I wasn’t profes­sional. When I was on court I would give 100%, but off the court I wouldn’t do the right things. I would go to bed late, play hours of PlayStation and just not worry about the small things. From 70 to top 5 in the world was the jump where I really decided to dedi­cate every­thing to tennis. I wanted to finally find my limits. I know people say there are none, but I want to test myself and find mine. That was the moment for me. I remember before that major jump where I would play one long match and I would lose the next day just because I couldn’t move. If you talk to anyone from juniors they would say I was one of the players in the worst shape, some­times cram­ping after only thirty minutes…” Swipe 👉 pictures to continue reading @medwed33 story !

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Publié le jeudi 26 mars 2020 à 16:21

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