Daniil Medvedev — tennis (us open) with roots in the Russia
Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev was born in Moscow on 11 February 1996, the son of Sergey Medvedev and Olga Medvedeva. He does not follow the usual path of a tennis prodigy: he took up the game as a child in Moscow and did not break through until his early twenties.
He made his ATP main-draw debut at the 2015 Kremlin Cup in Moscow, in doubles with Aslan Karatsev, and won his first three ATP singles titles in 2018. In 2019 he entered the top ten and reached six consecutive finals from August to October — Washington, Montreal, Cincinnati, the US Open, St Petersburg and Shanghai — winning the Masters events in Cincinnati and Shanghai and taking Rafael Nadal to five sets in the US Open final. In November 2020 he won the ATP Finals in London, beating the world's top three players on the way, the first player to do so in the history of the event. Together with his Paris Masters title that month, it began a run of twenty consecutive wins, twelve of them against top-ten players.
In 2021 he reached two major finals against Novak Djokovic. After losing in Melbourne, he beat him 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 in the US Open final, denying Djokovic a calendar Grand Slam and winning his first major title. That season he also won the ATP Cup and the Davis Cup with Russia and the Laver Cup with Team Europe, and led the tour with sixty-three match wins. On 28 February 2022 he became world No. 1, the first man outside the 'Big Four' to hold the top ranking since 2004, and spent sixteen weeks there.
He reached the Australian Open final again in 2022 and 2024, both times losing after leading by two sets, and in 2023 won five titles, among them Miami and, on clay, Rome. Most of his titles have come on hard courts. In 2026 he won his second title in Dubai, breaking a run in which each of his first twenty-two titles had come at a different event, and by August 2026 he had won twenty-three singles titles. He lives in Monaco.
"Lives in Monaco."
Migration storyTracing the roots — Moscow (Russia)
Born in Moscow in 1996 to Sergey Medvedev and Olga Medvedeva, he began playing in Moscow and made his ATP debut at the Kremlin Cup there in 2015; he now lives in Monaco.
Moscow (Russia). Today, the former Soviet space comprises fifteen sovereign independent states.