LE SCAN SPORT – Coming out in the quarter-finals of the Masters 1000 in Shanghai, Medvedev accepted an original challenge by facing ten young ball collectors at the same time and with the left hand.
Out in the quarter-finals at the Masters 1000 in Shanghai swept by the future winner Jannik Sinner (6-1, 6-4), the Russian Daniil Medvedev took up a very original challenge.
Initiated by the organizers, the winner of the US Open 2021 faced ten young ball collectors from the tournament at the same time in a super tie-break match (10 winning points). Small constraint, the Russian had to play with his left hand (his bad hand), making his task even more difficult.
First in front, the world number five then suffered from the offensive play of his opponents. And with the wrong hand, difficult to defend. In the tough, the Russian finally won 10-8 recognizing that “Some of them played really welln».
The ATP likes to offer challenges to its players; a few weeks ago, the Kazakh Alexander Bublik challenged a young 13-year-old prodigy, an expert in the discipline, to ping-pong. Despite his skills in the field, Bublik was swept 11-3.
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