But with his clinical dissection of Balazs, he served notice that he remains a real threat to claim his second U.S. Open title in three years. "I don't care it is normal Carlos and Novak are the biggest names right now," said Medvedev when asked if he felt overlooked. The Australian could prove a much trickier test having forced Medvedev to go three tough sets earlier this year in Doha. After losing to eventual champion Alcaraz in the Wimbledon semi-finals, Medvedev has had a quiet U.S. Open buildup, getting to the quarter-finals of the Canadian Open and the round of 16 a week later in Cincinnati. But Medvedev has always produced some of his best work in New York, reaching the final in 2019, semi-finals in 2020 and winning it in 2021.

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Persons: Russia's Daniil Medvedev, Hungary's Attila Balazs REUTERS, Mike Segar, Daniil Medvedev, Attila Balazs, Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Medvedev, Balazs, Carlos, Novak, Christopher O'Connell, Alcaraz, Steve Keating, Toby Davis, Pritha Organizations: Tennis, U.S ., U.S, Doha, eventual, Wimbledon, Canadian, Thomson Locations: Flushing Meadows , New York, United States, Flushing Meadows, Russian, Doha, U.S, Cincinnati, New York, Toronto