Medvedev Bows, Considers Career Change – Tennis Now

Daniil Medvedev contemplates profession change mid-match.

Richard PagliaroAugust 26, 20262 minute learn

By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Photograph credit score: US Open/USTA

Changeovers present gamers a second to reset and recharge.

Daniil Medvedev turned changeover into profession counseling session in Winston-Salem.

Throughout the top-seeded Russian’s 7-5, 6-3 opening-round loss to American Martin Damm watch the mercurial Medvedev first take into account a profession shift to pickleball then summon the spirit of former US Open Combined Doubles champion Jack Sock into the combination.

“Possibly I ought to begin a profession in pickleball,” Medvedev muses out loud. “Not too late. With Jack Sock in doubles.”

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Baring his internal frustration, Medvedev summed up emotions of futility placing even curling forward of tennis in his wounded coronary heart.

“Each sport on this planet is best, man,” Medvedev mentioned. “Even curling proper now.”

The 2021 US Open champion has trigger to vent forward of his Flushing Meadows return. Medvedev suffered his second opening-round defeat in his final three North American hard-court occasions, together with a first-round loss to Botic van de Zandschulp in Montreal.

Actually, since his run to the Rome semifinals the place he fell to Jannik Sinner on purple clay, Medveved has posted a 7-7 report and break up with coach Thomas Johansson after his Wimbledon third-round exit.

Regardless of his struggles, and his musing for a Sock pickleball partnership, former world No. 1 Medvedev can nonetheless sit up for self enchancment in Flushing Meadows.

A yr in the past, Medvedev fell to Benjamin Bonzi in a wild US Open first-rounder that noticed a photographer bounced after he walked onto the courtroom. Previous to his 2025 Flushing Meadows first-round exit, Medvedev had reached quarterfinals or higher in 5 of his final six US Open appearances.