Watch Leonardo Mayer and Daniil Medvedev get taken on a wild ride — literally — on Monday with professional racecar driver Rafael Lobato thanks to Peugeot ahead of the Millennium Estoril Open. Photo and video courtesy of the Millennium Estoril Open.
A day after Kyle Edmund and Joao Sousa enjoyed a thrilling surfing lesson in Estoril from one of the highest-ranked professionals in the world, Daniil Medvedev and Leonardo Mayer got taken for a wild ride — literally — of their own on Monday ahead of the Millennium Estoril Open. The two seeded players in this week’s event (Mayer No. 7 and Medvedev No. 8) were driven around a track built on Cascais Marina by Portuguese racecar driver Rafael Lobato. “It’s incredible! You realize how hard it is to drive these kind of cars. The drivers go really fast and that’s amazing,” Mayer said. “You feel a bit scared because of the chance of crashing. But it is impossible, because the...
Watch Daniil Medvedev scramble before lobbing a ball over Pierre-Hugues Herbert at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament on Thursday. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com.
Daniil Medvedev, who qualified for the inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan last year, did not get off to the best start in 2018. The Russian began his season at an ATP Challenger Tour event in Playford, Australia, where he lost in the first round against World No. 379 Marinko Matosevic. “It was very disappointing to start the year like this, because I went to the Challenger event to get some matches,” Medvedev told ATPWorldTour.com. “We knew it happens in tennis. The guy played a very good match. There will always be losses. So I just knew I had to be ready for the next one.” The 21-year-old was more than ready, as he cruised through qualifying before winning...
Daniil Medvedev discusses the first ATP World Tour title of his career, which he won at the Sydney International, while also talking about his goals for the future.
