What are Daniil Medvedev’s thoughts on becoming a father
Former world No 1 Daniil Medvedev says that becoming a father made him the happiest he has ever been in his life.
Medvedev and wife Darya welcomed their first child into the world in October 2022, and he says he has been floating since.
Darya has been able to join her husband on tour with the baby, which surprisingly hasn’t cost the new parents too much sleep.
Fatherhood appears to suit Medvedev down to the ground as he recently admitted that he could talk about it for hours.
“I’m a really happy person in my life right now with only good emotion. The experience is amazing. That’s what many, many people told me: that I can only understand this when I’ll have a baby. And now, I can completely understand. So this is a lot of fun,” said Daniil Medvedev.
The joy just lights up his face as he speaks about his daughter and his wife.
“I’m really happy about it and grateful to my wife,” said Medvedev.
“I can talk about this for hours and hours.”
Medvedev has admitted that he hadn’t been feeling great about his tennis before a run to the Wimbledon last four.
“I don’t know, actually because I thought about this today during the match honestly,” Medvedev said when asked to reflect on his run after he fought back from the brink of elimination in his quarter-final against Christopher Eubanks.
“When I started losing it, I was like, All right, what’s happening? Why is it happening like this? Then I went in my career I was able to do a lot of big things, which probably four, five years ago I didn’t think I would be able to do.
“That’s when I was like, Okay, I need to try to turn this match around and to do like I did many times to win this tough, tough battles at the Grand Slam.
“I would say that this Wimbledon semifinal is honestly not that much about my career past before, it’s about I managed to step up my game so far during this tournament. Before the tournament, I was not feeling well with my tennis. First round I was not feeling well. Starting from the second round, it was only getting better and better.
“Yeah, as I say, today was small moment where I lost let’s say everything I was building till this moment. But I managed to bring it back and maybe even go step further.”
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