Daniil Medvedev | Confidence is key | Wimbledon 2023

oh beautiful all around like the grass itself the field looking at each flower seems to have a perfect color perfect shape and things like this and you say well that has to be the most beautiful place in the world the most beautiful most important tournament in the world world, if you don't play with determination, this can always change, but I think the first impression is the most important. I feel that physically I am at 100% and that is important because we play in five sets, it is not easy. Grass for some of the muscle. I like grass and I actually spent a couple of years at Wimbledon where I felt like I was playing well.

The thing about grass is that sometimes you can hold your serve and get to the tiebreak and that becomes difficult. I can lose playing a big match, so that's where I have to try to be better than my opponents and try to show my best tennis, be my best mentality and that's what I'm going to try to do. I feel like in tennis I don't know for other guys but for me

confidence

can go up and down so much you can win just one match where you feel like you played well and

confidence

can't go up that much and this can help you and then you can play. a bad game and you can sing very easily and that's where it's mental, you have to try to do your best when you don't feel good and you have to try to keep it up when you really feel better.

I'm definitely not afraid to look into the draw, but I'm not sure I can tell you everything because I'm somewhere in between too. I'm not scared at all and sometimes, you know, I'd just see an Instagram picture of the projected quarterfinals and I'd know, for example, who's in my room. I'm not sure I've seen it here. I actually saw it, yes, but I'm not going to be someone who also looks good in the third round. I can have it so maybe I have to mentally prepare now so take it one step at a time but I also don't mind looking at the big picture I haven't really thought about it but the crowd will definitely be crazy about it so yeah.

That's not the first time in my life, so sometimes if you manage to have a good match, beating the local opponent, you can get the public on your side, sometimes it depends on how you get to know everyone who plays here. Wildcard qualifier. As a loser, everyone can play good tennis, so I'm going to prepare mine as best I can. I hope that what I have done this year will help me do even better in big tournaments like this, thank you.