On the tennis court, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev have cold exchanges while crossing paths and a fire to win at all costs. They have always been one of the fiercest rivals, evidenced during this year’s Rome Open when Medvedev avenged his 2022 Cincinnati Open defeat. After the winning the match point, Medvedev performed a peculiar dance as a response to Tsitsipas’ dance the previous year in Cincinnati. But as time goes on, it won’t be long before the rivals become friends as well, as there is one factor that can bring about a change in their rivalry.

Love transforms a person from the inside out. The Greek tennis player, too, seems to be inspired in some way by the same phenomenon. As evidence, the madly in love Tsitsipas recently spoke about his adversary while he was beside his girlfriend, Paula Badosa.

Madly in love Stefanos Tsitsipas talked about his arch-rival Daniil Medvedev

The 2023 Australian Open finalist has been in the news for the past few months because of his blossoming romance with Paula Badosa. And no doubt, there have been a lot of changes that can be seen in the ATP star now that he has found his soulmate. And one such change took place just a day ago. The couple was on Instagram Live, and the Greek star shocked his live audience by talking about his arch-rival for 1 minute straight.

Seeing such an amazing change, the 24-year-old tennis player’s fans, in no time, recorded the part when he talked about the Russian tennis player. Moreover, he also praised Medvedev for his tennis style.

He said, “I find him funny sometimes on the court. It’s obviously you want to go and play tennis and not spend 10 minutes talking. But sometimes they are fun, especially when you see them on replay.”

Well, they have both faced each other 12 times on the tennis court since 2018. Medvedev leads the head-to-head with eight wins.

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But now, with his girlfriend by his side, he definitely talked well about his rival. However, this was not the case in the past; four years ago, he made a comment that was a stark contrast to his current words.

When Tsitsipas tagged Daniil Medvedev as ‘boring’

At the Rolex Shanghai Masters in 2019, the 24-year-old suffered his fifth consecutive loss to the Russian star. He claimed that facing the 2021 US Open champion was boring and expressed his annoyance at the defeat at the post-match press conference.

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Tsitsipas remarked that although it could have been extremely impolite of him, it was boring to stand in his way on the tennis court. Additionally, he criticized himself for deciding to play on the opposing team’s terms rather than according to his own style of play.

Do you think Medvedev would send his response to the Greek star’s recent praise?