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Daniil Medvedev defeats Andrey Rublev to win the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship 2023
Sun 05 Mar 2023
Dubai: Daniil Medvedev won his third championship in three weeks defeating Russia’s Andrey Rublev in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis’ final.
“It’s incredible because it wasn’t perfect at the outset of the year. When you don’t win contests in tennis, you start to have doubts. It simply feels better now,” the former world number one said after the win over the defending champion.
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About Daniil Medvedev
Daniil Medvedev is a professional tennis player from Russia. As of February 26, 2023, he has won 17 singles titles, most recently in Doha, beating former world No 1 Andy Murray of Great Britain in the final.
He arrived in New York for the 2022 US Open as the defending champion there, having beaten Novak Djokovic in last year’s final, but lost in the fourth round to Nick Kyrgios 7-6 (11), 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev is a Russian professional tennis player. He is currently ranked world No. 7 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and was ranked as the singles world No. 1 for 16 total weeks. Medvedev has won 18 ATP Tour singles titles, including the 2021 US Open and 2020 ATP Finals. In the former, Medvedev defeated then-world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the final to deny him the Grand Slam.[5] In the latter, he became the first and only player to defeat the top three ranked players in the world en route to the year-end championship title. He has also won four Masters 1000 titles and contested four major finals. Medvedev made his ATP Tour main draw debut at the singles event of the 2015 Kremlin Cup. In 2017, he participated in a major for the first time at Wimbledon, where he defeated world No. 3 Stan Wawrinka. In 2018, Medvedev won his first ATP Tour singles titles in Sydney and Winston-Salem, and his first ATP 500 title in Tokyo. He achieved a breakthrough in 2019, making his top 10 debuts after Wimbledon and reaching six consecutive tournament finals, including at the US Open.[6][7] In February 2022, Medvedev became the first man outside of the Big Three to hold the world No. 1 ranking since Andy Murray in November 2016, the third Russian man following Yevgeny Kafelnikov in 1999 and Marat Safin in 2000, and the 27th man overall.
About Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships
The Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships is one of the most eagerly anticipated events on the UAE sporting calendar and one of the most popular tournament stops for the ATP World Tour and the WTA Tour. Owned and organised by Dubai Duty Free and held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.
It consists of a WTA 1000 women’s event, followed by the ATP 500 men’s tournament. This is the 31st year of the ATP tournament and the 23rd year of the WTA tournament.
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