It may not be love at first sight, but Daniil Medvedev’s relationship with the red clay is officially improving.
The second-seeded Russian, who recently compared chasing tennis balls on the clay to frolicking like “a dog in the dirt”, appears to be opening his heart to the terre battue in Paris, where he notched his maiden Roland-Garros victory, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 over the delightfully unpredictable Alexander Bublik of Kazahkstan.