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“Then the next week in Miami I think a lot of guys maybe saw the final, so they started to do only drop shots against me. Yeah, it's not the same. It's like, okay, continue doing
it. I'm there. Against him, I'm not there,” he explained. “Yeah, he's playing great and everyone knows it. Yeah, if you have him in your draw, it's scary.” Luckily for
Medvedev, he won’t have to face Alcaraz unless both men reach the final. But the world No 3 already appears to have conceded that he likely won’t be able to defeat the teenager on the clay.
“I'm going to be interested to play him more and more to try and see how I can handle this part better, because again, in Indian Wells, the court was closer to clay courts in terms of
speed, so I think it was favourable for him. Maybe other hard courts would be easier for me to try to see what I can do,” he said, reflecting on their Indian Wells final clash. Addressing
his own experience on the clay, Medvedev joked: “How I would describe myself? Let's call it this way: Not clay specialist.”