A candy in Medvedev

During this … Armenian visit, which I made in room 451 of the Hotel “Atlantis”, the conversation turned a few times to the … anonymous, with whom he has what the Americans call “rivalry” …

This rivalry will increase tomorrow as he was destined to face Menvedev in the semifinals of the Australian Open in which Tsitsipinio obviously left an unpaid bill and wants to pay it back…

Repayable on the spot, subject to the statutory interest on arrears, apart from the time difference which works to his detriment due to our difference with Down Under!

In this interview we had in front of us truffles, chocolate biscuits, melomakarona and donuts …

I then asked him if he eats like this…

“No, they’re banned from my diet for the next 15 years” he told me right abruptly. “We brought it for you”…

“Because as the Americans say ‘it takes two to tango’, what would you call Menvedev?” I insisted…

“Well he’s earned a candy since he won the Davis Cup” answered …

The hard cookie

Tomorrow Tsitsipas wants to honor the (Greek tradition) of Xenios Zeus Xenios Zeus and treat the Russian tennis player to a sweet again …

Not a truffle or donuts, but a hard biscuit!

This is how Stefanos described Andrei Rublev on October 6, 2020, and this is how he now describes … Tsitsipas!

“I’m a tough cookie, tennis got me into it” he confessed to me. “Tennis beats me and broke my berry several times so I had to be tough and be able to react.”

And Medvedev is tough on everything: he doesn’t chew, and he proved that yesterday in the semifinals with Aliasim, which lasted four hours and 42 minutes and turned into the tennis version of… Ben Hur!

That’s what Medvedev said at the end of this thriller “In the difficult moments of the game, I wondered what Djokovic, Rafa and Roger would do in my place and I tried to step into their journey.”

He did not mention Tsitsipas in that statement.

He will regret his mistake tomorrow when the fly eats iron and the mosquito eats steel!

I’m exaggerating and joking, of course, apart from the fact that – important as tradition is – the Russian has a 6-2 advantage in wins over Tsitsipas in the matches between them…

Daly and the Chimeras of Perfection

Stefanos defeated him the last time they faced each other and it remains to be seen how and in whose favor this semi-final will end, who will open the first door for Tsitsipas to mount a save on his…

Win his first Grand Slam title, bow to the world No. 1 and begin the hunt for the chimeras!

What does that mean; Salvador Dali once said that “Perfection is a utopia that you will never achieve no matter how hard you try.”

The other day Tsitsipas gave me his own version of this eccentric Spanish artist’s catchphrase…

“I am chasing perfection, which I know does not exist, but I am determined to get as close as possible”!

“His game is boring, my creative”

Adding to their eight matches so far, the two have other capitulations that will face the suffering of the semifinals…

What I mean;

Tsitsipas said that in October 2019 “Medvedev’s game is boring!

When we were in Heraklion, I asked him if and to what extent he meant it or if he said it to irritate the 27-year-old Russian tennis player…

“No, I mean his game is boring” He answered me.

“And what’s your game?” I threw the ball back at him…

“I play to win and not to let the other lose”

“Mine is creative and aggressive” recognized and explained: “I go forward, I play volleyball and drop shot, I open up the field, I have more variety. I play to win and not to let the other lose”!

Paid answer, I kept it in a wine cellar and reserve the right to present it to Lydia tomorrow, a stone of a semifinal at the end of which the …. after beating Italy in the quarterfinals of the Eurobasket …

“This is my biggest win until the next game”!

There will certainly be in such a case, Stefanos hopes, if all goes well, to complete what he left in midfield a year ago: then he threw Nadal on the canvas in the quarter-finals (whom he had aged 18:00 hung). eight on a poster in his room) returned 0-2, but was defeated by Medvedev in the semifinals …

The colossi and “gaming responsibly”

To do this, he must mobilize all his strengths, both his own and those that he envies the three giants of modernity and that he has testified to me: Federer’s talent, Nadal’s fighting spirit and Djokovic’s spiritual strength. …

He will even be inspired by the advice he would give in a letter to his young self…

Gamble responsibly!

The donkey said the rooster head!

Oh, let’s not forget: in a four-on-four, says Djokovic, they would have urged Tsitsipas to stop behaving like a Balkan!

The donkey said the rooster head!

“I am both Balkan, Mediterranean and Greek” Stefanos then answered him who will put on his armor tonight and attack with his club, shielding him in such cases as if it were Poseidon’s trident.

PS: Come on with pain, that’s what they say at birth!