Daniil Medvedev says that unsolicited advice is one of the things he hates most in life.
He says that what he wants to avoid as a parent is trying to take control of his daughter’s life.
Daniil Medvedev understands as a fiercely independent person that everyone needs to be in charge of their own life.
He says that his daughter is a lot like him and can be difficult to help just as he concedes that he can be a nightmare for coaches.
“Well, I think it definitely, like all the babies, have something from both of us,” Medvedev said at Indian Wells.
“But if we talk about me, that sometimes is my problem on the court. So for coaches, it’s not that easy to coach me, because for me to, like… I trust what they say, but for me to fully commit and believe in it, I kind of need the results straight away.
“Let’s say my coach tells me on the clay to spin more. I’m going to for 10 minutes spin, and I’m like, see, I don’t put one ball in the court. I’m going to start doubting and maybe play flat.
“Then, yeah, but when I myself commit to something and believe something, that’s when I go for it. No matter the result.
So the same, yeah, I’m trying, I read some books, I’m trying, you know, to have a different — I’m trying to be a good father in my own approach, and I want that she learns herself many things, and I’m there to help if she needs help.”
Daniil Medvedev used the example of numerous people trying to tell him that he needs to come to the net more across the course of his career as an example of what he doesn’t want to be like as a parent.
“The thing I hate the most in life is when someone, and it happens like even in player, the lounges sometimes, some coach from WTA, would come to me and say, you have to go to the net more.
“I’m like, what the hell? That’s the thing I hate the most in life.
“I really want to be there for my children when they need help but I don’t want to be invasive.
“What happens, I talk to my daughter, I’m like, If you need help I’m there. She’s like me, she doesn’t want any help. If you try to help her she starts screaming, and says, Go away, I need to do it myself. So that’s definitely my character.
“Yeah, I’m proud of it.”
