Alcaraz v Medvedev: Head to head, stats, all you need to know about their rivalry – updated after 2024 Indian Wells final

Carlos Alcaraz leads the head-to-head series with Daniil Medvedev 4-2 after he won their most recent meeting in the final of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells on March 17, 2024.

How many times have Alcaraz and Medvedev played each other?

Carlos Alcaraz and Daniil Medvedev have played each other six times so far. Medvedev won the first match; Alcaraz won the next two, then Medvedev triumphed, against the odds, at the US Open in 2023, when he won in four sets. Alcaraz has had the better of their last two meetings, at the ATP Finals on November 17, 2023, and in the Indian Wells final on March 17, 2024.

The full list is as follows:

• 2024 Indian Wells Masters final – outdoor hard – Alcaraz won 7-6 (5), 6-1
• 2023 ATP Finals RR – indoor hard – Alcaraz won 6-4, 6-4
• 2023 US Open quarter-finals – outdoor hard – Medvedev won 7-6 (3), 6-1, 3-6, 6-3
• 2023 Wimbledon semi-final – outdoor grass – Alcaraz won 6-3, 6-3, 6-3
• 2023 Indian Wells Masters final – outdoor hard – Alcaraz won 6-3, 6-2
• 2021 Wimbledon second round – outdoor grass – Medvedev won 6-4, 6-1, 6-2

How many singles titles do Medvedev and Alcaraz have?

Alcaraz has 13 singles titles on the ATP Tour: 2021 Umag; 2022 Rio, Miami, Barcelona, Madrid and the US Open; 2023 Buenos Aires, Indian Wells, Barcelona, Madrid, Queen’s and Wimbledon; 2024 Indian Wells.

Medvedev has 20 singles titles on the ATP Tour: 2018 Sydney, Winston-Salem and Tokyo; 2019 Sofia, Cincinnati, St Petersburg, and Shanghai; 2020 Paris and ATP Finals; 2021 Marseille, Mallorca, Canada and US Open; 2022 Los Cabos and Vienna; 2023 Rotterdam, Doha, Dubai, Miami and Rome.

What have Alcaraz and Medvedev said about each other?

After losing in the Indian Wells final, Medvedev said:

“Carlos, his ball goes so fast that it goes fast from the beginning to the end.

“Basically it’s an advantage. It’s an advantage because when we played some rallies today, there were not so many, but when I managed to set up a rally, I felt like the only thing I can do is hit strong but not really put him in trouble, and when he makes one good shot I’m in trouble and I lose the point. It’s tough.

“Mentally it’s not easy to play against this. Yeah, to be honest, in second set, I felt a little bit out of solutions. Yeah, it’s not an easy feeling, because you have to try to do better. But that’s how I felt and I know that, for example, in US Open I managed to find the solutions. Different court, different situation.

“But even if I play him again here, this year was better than last year, 100%, I’m going to try to do even better. Maybe one set next time, and then hopefully two sets.”

After reaching the US Open semi-final, Alcaraz said that he thought his game-plan for Medvedev had worked well in their previous two meetings.

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“Last matches that I played against Daniil I played a tactical game played perfectly. You know, I did pretty well all the things that I had to do against him, so I think my game suits pretty well against that type of opponent, you know, like Daniil.

“So I gonna try to do the same things that I did, for example, in Indian Wells and in Wimbledon, and hopefully to get the win and play the same level that I played in that matches.”

Medvedev had said earlier in the day: “I would say what makes him that difficult is just that he has every shot. He has extra power to other players. So it’s true many players probably I would go with 97%, it’s tough for them to hit the ball through me, like I’m always there, always running, always trying to get it back.

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“He can do it just because he has this power, we see it 100 mile forehand winner and stuff like this. Some players, even if we try, we cannot do it.

“So that’s one thing he’s good from forehand, backhand, he can slice, dropshot. So he has every shot in the game. But again, tennis, you can always beat players. People beat Novak. People even beat Rafa on clay, which is almost impossible but some players do.

“It’s the same about Carlos. Every time I will be playing against him I want to try to win, so I said it one time already, I need to serve better than I did the previous matches. I need to serve on the line if I need to. I need to put my shots on the line and stuff like this. I need to be there 100% of the time and be better.”

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