Rome Tournament | Daniil Medvedev wins his first clay-court tournament

(Rome) The Russian Daniil Medvedev, seeded N.3, won his first clay court tournament on Sunday by winning the final of the Masters 1000 in Rome against the Dane Holger Rune (N.7) 7-5, 7 -5.

Medvedev, whom nobody expected at such a party in a tournament where he had never won a match in his three previous participations, won the 20^e title of his career, of which 18 were obtained on hard courts and one on grass.

With this triumph, the Russian will become world No.2 on Monday ahead of Novak Djokovic, pushed back to third place in a ranking which will be dominated by the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, which will be important for the tables of Roland-Garros which begins in a week.

For the second final of his career on ocher, after the one lost in Barcelona in 2019, Medvedev, 27, gave a lesson to his young opponent of 20, who fell holder Djokovic in the quarter-finals, during a match where he was able to be particularly opportunistic in the end of the set.

“I hated clay, now I definitely like it a little more,” laughed the Russian, who had always lost his first match in his three previous appearances in 2018, 2019 and 2021.