It’s now 19 titles in 19 different cities now for Daniil Medvedev.
That’s how the resume of Russian now reads after beating Jannik Sinner 7-5, 6-3 in the final of the Miami Open.
Medvedev has only won two titles bigger than his championship played inside Hard Rock Stadium, those being the 2021 U.S. Open and the 2020 ATP Finals, but he has never won the same title twice or in the same city.
The title in Miami is his fourth championship on the Masters 1000 level – the highest level event in pro tennis other than the four Grand Slam tournaments. Medvedev also won the Masters 1000 titles in Cincinnati in 2019
In 2018, he won his first career titles in Sydney, Winston-Salem and Tokyo. In his breakthrough season in 2019, he won in Sofia, Bulgaria, then his first Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati and then, after reaching the final of the U.S. Open and losing an epic five-setter to Rafael Nadal, he won on home Russian soil in St. Petersburg and then his second Masters 1000 title in Shanghai. In the COVID-shortened 2020 season, Medvedev won the Masters 1000 title in Paris and also the ATP Finals in London.
Marseille and Mallorca were two more cities were Medvedev planted title flags in 2021, to go with titles that year in New York at the U.S. Open and also at the Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati. In 2022, Medvedev won in Los Cabos, Mexico and Vienna, Austria.
So far in 2023, Medvedev has won four titles in the first quarter of the year, winning in Rotterdam, Doha, Dubai before winning in Miami.
On the horizon for Medvedev is the clay-court season, his Achilles heel as he has never won a title on clay. However, with his current form, he certainly could breakthrough on the clay and will be a leading contender, certainly at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open and could finally win for a second time in a certain city in Cincinnati or Toronto or again in New York at the U.S. Open.
