Daniil Medvedev suggests Ben Shelton and Jack Draper have a ‘drawback’ in comparison with most different ATP gamers

It has been extra of a tough highway for Indian Wells champion Jack Draper, who has been struggling with an arm injury since Wimbledon final 12 months after having fun with a formidable begin to the 2025 season.

Despite their spectacular outcomes already, former world primary Daniil Medvedev has instructed they really have an obstacle.

Daniil Medvedev claims left-handed gamers have an obstacle

Medvedev has one of the most unique game styles on the ATP Tour, but it surely has helped him attain the highest of the world rankings and win the US Open title in 2021.

While his recreation is unorthodox, Medvedev remains to be a right-handed participant, not like his first spherical opponent on the Dubai Tennis Championships, Juncheng Shang.

When requested about taking part in left-handed gamers, Medvedev defined that he usually wonders what gamers like Shang take into consideration taking part in right-handed gamers and in the event that they suppose they’ve an edge.

“I always wonder, because I’m not a left-handed, how do they feel,” Medvedev advised Tennis TV. “Because on one side, I would probably say if you ask all the right-handers they are going to say, ‘It must be super good to be a left-hander’.

“Why? Because most of the time you are going to play a righty, so most of the time you are going to be used to it. And we as right-handers are not going to be used to it, as we play them much less than they play us.

“But at the same time when you look throughout the history of tennis, there are not that many left handers. Yes of course there are some really great ones, but I always wonder what do they feel inside. Like when Jerry (Juncheng Shang) comes to play me for example…do they feel like they have the edge, because they are confident in how they play against right-handers.”

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Medvedev was then requested if he thinks left-handed gamers have a bonus, he claimed that he thought that it was really the other.

“No, I do think it’s very tricky for them as well and I actually do think it’s a bit of a disadvantage, because they play against right-handers more than we play against them, so every match is tricky, tricky, tricky,” defined Medvedev. “Whereas for us we play right-hander, right-hander, then it’s a tricky left-hander.

“So it’s a bit of a long story, the goal is to try and use a bit of slice, to throw them away on the backhand, they are trying to do the same. In any tennis match they are trying to break more than you, and whoever breaks is going to win the match probably.”

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How has Daniil Medvedev fared towards left-handed gamers?

The aforementioned Shelton and Draper are the best ranked left-handed gamers on the ATP Tour proper now.

Medvedev has had various success towards left-handed gamers, with there presently being 12 ranked inside the highest 100 of the ATP rankings.

In his 39 earlier conferences towards these 12 left-handed gamers, Medvedev has received 56.4% of his matches.

This consists of Medvedev having profitable head-to-heads towards Draper, Cameron Norrie and Denis Shapovalov.

However, the Russian has a destructive report towards Shelton, and Medvedev has particularly struggled against Learner Tien, who beat him on the Australian Open, and Ugo Humbert.

Medvedev will check his idea towards the left-handed Shang within the first spherical of the Dubai Tennis Championships.

This is the second consecutive week that they’ve performed one another, with Medvedev beating Shang in straight units on the Qatar Open.