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DANIIL MEDVEDEV has revealed that he has spoken to his team about the prospect of boycotting matches in future due to timings. The former world No. 1 believes that play gets underway too early at plenty of competitions, and he therefore said he won’t be among those stepping on to the court first further down the line. Instead, if Medvedev is drawn to play during the early hours of the day, he has outlined how he intends to stay in bed and put a line through competing entirely – handing his opponent the victory regardless of the circumstances. Speaking to The Guardian , he explained: “I was talking to my team today. I was like: ‘When I’m 35, I might just boycott the 11am matches.’ “I’ll be like:‘I’m not coming. Walkover.’Like:‘Yeah, I didn’t wake up. Sorry, guys.’ “In my opinion, 11am is so early. You have to wake up at 6.30 in the morning, where, if you play at night, you wake up at 9am. So it changes the perspective of the match. It’s crazy mentally.” Match timings in tennis has been a hot topic recently, with some players complaining about the Medvedev threatens to boycott matches

Red-hot Swiatek Reigning Wimbledon champion swamps Rybakina, to face Paolini in Cincinnati final I GA SWIATEK reached the final of the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Open for the first time yesterday, surging past Elena Rybakina 7-5, 6-3 to book a title clash opening set, sweeping the last four games. She jumped to a 4-1 lead in the second, sandwiching a pair of love service games around a break of Rybakina’s serve.

impact that any delays have on matches, especially those waiting in the wings to compete. A number of players have spoken out about how they feel at a disadvantage when their games are pushed back, especially at the last minute. Jessica Pegula explained: “If you’re in a grand slam and you follow a three-out-of-five-set match, and they go five, you’re screwed.” Karen Khachanov also feels there is an element of suffering from a “false start” when your match does not take place at the allocated time, especially if it is changed at the last minute and therefore warmups have already taken place. He said: “It’s tough to wake yourself up again. Let’s say you warmed up, you are full of adrenaline, you are ready to go on court, and then all of a sudden, there’s another set. “So you are thinking: ‘OK, should I eat now? Should I just sleep? Should I watch the phone or I just, I don’t know, look at the roof? What do I do? Play cards with my team?’ Sometimes you just don’t really know what to do.” – Express Newspapers

But Kazakhstan’s Rybakina made her work for it, fending off three break points in the sixth game and saving a pair of match points in the eighth before Swiatek closed it out a game later. “I was playing with intensity and quality,” Swiatek said. “I feel good about my game right now and would not change anything.” Swiatek has beaten Paolini in all five of their prior meetings with the Italian winning just one set. But Swiatek said she was prepared for a tough final against a player who beat world No. 2 Coco Gauff in the quarterfinals. “Anyone who is there will have been playing well,” she said. Before her 6-0, 6-0 Wimbledon final win over Amanda Anisimova last month, Swiatek had been in a trophy drought with her last prior title coming in June 2024 at Roland Garros. Another victory pvernight would be a strong springboard into the US Open, where first-round play starts on Aug 24. Paolini looked headed to a straight-set victory but failed to serve out her match at 5 4 in the second set and admitted the lapse left her nervous. “The key was to forget, get back into the fight and stay in the present,” Paolini said after wrapping up the win in two and a quar ter hours. “I was fighting in the second set and all was fine. But I got nervous and thought I would lose the tiebreaker.

with Jasmine Paolini. The six-time Grand Slam champion earned a final against an opponent with nothing to lose after Paolini managed to “forget” a patch of bad form to claim a 6-3, 6-7 (2-7), 6-3 win over Russian Veronika Kudermetova. The 29-year-old, who was a two-time Grand Slam finalist in 2024, will bid for the fourth title of her career when she faces Swiatek, who is set to compete in her 13th final at the 1000 level as she closes in on a return to world number two. Swiatek, the reigning Wimbledon cham pion, recovered an early break in the open ing set and powered away to beat 2022 All England winner Rybakina – who had swept past world No. 1 and defending champion Aryna Sabalenka in the quarterfinals. The former world No. 1 from Poland now ranked third, had twice stalled at the semifi nal stage at the pre-US Open event, but booked her title chance on her third oppor tunity. “It was a great match, and at the begin ning, I was even surprised that I’m able to keep up with the pace, because we played so fast,” Swiatek said. “I wanted to be there when Elena

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