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celebrates                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\">\n<p>Daniil Medvedev believes that he can \u2018beat anyone\u2019 when playing at his best, stating that his confidence is \u2018high\u2019 after winning Dubai and making the final at Indian Wells.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian has seen a return to more consistent form over the last five months, first marked by lifting his first singles trophy in almost 30 months at the end of 2025 \u2013 at the Astana Open.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being sensationally thrashed by Learner Tien at the Australian Open, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/daniil-medvedev\">Medvedev<\/a> romped home to win the ATP 500 event in Dubai without dropping a set.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, he ended world No 1 Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s 16-match winning streak in 2026 at the Indian Wells Masters.<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the tournament, the 2021 US Open champion was suffering a 24-month drought from showpiece matches at Masters 1000s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTennis is such a sport that I tend to forget really fast what happened before,\u201d reflected Medvedev during an interview with Tennis TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, Indian Wells is just a fresh memory. So this I remember, and it\u2019s great for confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you lose a tournament in the first round, so then you have a lot of time to practice and prepare the next one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you go like one weekend advance to get ready used to the courts, but when you are low in confidence, it doesn\u2019t help you at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Latest Tennis News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/rennae-stubbs-worrying-iga-swiatek-assessment-floats-drastic-coaching-change\">Rennae Stubbs makes worrying Iga Swiatek assessment and floats idea of drastic coaching change<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/miami-open-2026-alex-eala-world-class-verdict-advice-serve\">Alex Eala labelled \u2018world-class\u2019 in one area as she gets candid advice on how she can improve<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as<span>\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medvedev will now seek to continue his impressive form at the Miami Open, his final hard-court tournament for four months.<\/p>\n<p>He is due to open his campaign against Rei Sakamoto, with Alexander Zverev lurking in his quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian is a former champion at the event, winning in 2023 against Jannik Sinner \u2013 who is projected to be his opponent in his last four.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Italian who was victorious 7-6(6), 7-6(4) in the Indian Wells Masters final, winning all of the final seven points to complete his cabinet of major hard-court tournament victories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere, [it\u2019s] the other way around, like yesterday was rainy, so I had my first hit today, which is, you know, some will say, three days after the tournament in Indian, I\u2019ll have only two days to prepare, but it was great,\u201d the former world No 1 continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, when you\u2019re high on confidence, everything goes in, everything is fluid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDubai also helped with this, but the tournament itself, you tend to forget it really fast, so probably after I play Miami, it\u2019s clay season, so I\u2019m not going to remember Indian Wells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it was great. In a way [I was] probably exceeding expectations but also at the same time I always said I know that when I play my best tennis like I did in Indian Wells, I can beat anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut also it\u2019s tough to beat me, and even though Jannik beat me, it was not an easy match, so I just hope to continue this way in Miami.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniil Medvedev lays down bold gauntlet and claims he can \u2018beat anyone\u2019 amid strong return to form Oliver Paton 21 Mar 2026 6:33 PM Daniil Medvedev celebrates Daniil Medvedev believes that he can \u2018beat anyone\u2019 when playing at his best, stating that his confidence is \u2018high\u2019 after winning Dubai and making the final at Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-1839303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1839303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1839303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1839303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1839303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}