Among the "four small giants" such as Tim, Medvedev, Zverev, and Tsitsipas, Medvedev is often ridiculed as "marrying young and early".
Today is Medvedev's 26th birthday, he and his wife Dalia have been married for 4 years, entering a stable period of married life, while the faces of the female companions in the boxes of the other three "little giants" players are still changing, and their feelings and lives are not yet stable.
Dalia is a very low-key person, there is very little public information about her on the Internet, we only know that she was born in Moscow and practiced tennis since she was a child. By the time she was around 18, Dalia was forced to end her tennis practice due to an injury and did not become a professional like Medvedev.
After giving up tennis, Dalia entered the Moscow State Institute of International Relations to study journalism. When Medvedev was 18 years old, the two began dating. Because both parties are very low-key and shy about their private lives, outsiders don't know much about their love process. The two have been in love for 4 years, and Medvedev and Daria were officially married before representing Russia in the Davis Cup in September 2018.
Medvedev has lived and trained in France for a long time, and after marriage, the two chose to settle in Monte Carlo, Monaco, which is also a common choice for many tennis players, mainly for tax avoidance.
After marriage, Dalia was responsible for her husband's daily affairs, such as helping Medvedev deal with business endorsements and communicating with sponsors. Like most women, Dalia has a strong interest in clothing. It is said that the crocodile T-shirts worn by Medvedev were carefully selected by Dalia and made after listening to her revisions. Compared with Medvedev's dress in previous years, we find that his dress taste and personal image have been greatly improved compared with the past, which is inseparable from Dalia's credit.
Dalia's support for her husband is not only in terms of life, she is also an important part of Medvedev's team. On many occasions, Medvedev naturally exuded affection and gratitude for his wife. "She was one of the most important members of my team and gave me a lot of confidence. I always say that from the moment I proposed to her, my life was on a new track. Medvedev said at a news conference in 2019.
When they first got married in 2018, Medvedev was around 65th in the world rankings, jumping to 16th at the end of that year. It can be said that the take-off of Medvedev's career began precisely from marriage. Recalling that experience, Medvedev credits his wife's hard work for the breakthrough in his career. "I played well in tennis in the second half of 2018, the results and rankings kept going up, Daria did a lot for me and I was able to focus more on training and playing."
In early August 2018, Medvedev was not ranked enough to qualify for the two Masters tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati, and he had to start with the qualifiers. On August 25, Medvedev won the ATP250 Winston station, ranking in the top 40. In October, Medvedev beat Japanese player Kei Nishikori in the final of the ATP500 Tokyo station, lifting the ranking to 22nd place.
As she also practiced tennis as a teenager, Dalia knew what life was like as a tennis player and knew how to understand and support her husband's career. "She knows about tennis, knows we can't go shopping before games, knows I'm busy from eight in the morning until night. If your partner knows nothing about tennis, it's hard to understand and get used to this kind of life. Dalia helped me become a better person and a better player. ”
Along with the improvement of grades and rankings, Medvedev has signed more and more business endorsements. At present, the known endorsement brands are: Tecnifiber tennis rackets, Lacoste clothing, BMW cars, Tinkoff Bank, Bowei watches and so on. During this year's Australian Open competition, I also found that Medvedev's T-shirt had the words "Luzhou Old Cellar" tattooed on the left sleeve, which is estimated to be an important endorsement he just signed not long ago.
Medvedev, who won the U.S. Open in September last year, said in an on-site interview: "This is my third wedding anniversary with my wife. During the game, I can't think of a gift. So when I got to the final, I thought I needed to find the gift as soon as possible. The only thing I thought about once I got to the final was that if I lost, I wouldn't have time to prepare gifts, so I had to win the game. I love you, Daria. ”
When talking about the "Little Big Four", we can't help but compare them to Fernardmu's "Big Four". While times are changing and people's values, lifestyles and pursuits are changing, the basic elements of success have not changed. I mean, if the "Big Four" want to achieve the same success as the "Big Four" of the previous generation, they should learn from their successful experience.
Since this article is about spouses, we will analyze the secret behind the success of the "Big Four" from the perspective of marriage and spouse.
Behind every successful man, there is a great woman. This phrase could not be more aptly applied to the "Big Four". Federer's wife, Mirka, was also a tennis player in her early years, and after retiring from the army, she was able to focus on tennis without distraction, and It is said that Federer's personal image, business endorsements, and major investments were all taken care of by Mielka.
Nadal and his wife Siska have known each other since childhood, the two have been in love for 14 years, married in 2019 after 12 years of engagement, and their emotional life before and after marriage is very stable, and Siska has been working at the Nadal Foundation for a long time.
Before he turned professional, Djokovic met and fell in love with his wife, Elena, and his life from love to marriage has been stable, and the two have a son and a daughter.
Murray fell in love with his wife, Hills, at the age of 17, whose mother was a former professional and tennis coach. Murray's father-in-law is also a famous British tennis coach, who has coached Hantu Chuwa, Ivanovich and Radukanu and others, the two families can be described as a door-to-door match, Murray is a "friend of women", "mother treasure man", "good husband" and "daughter slave" in the eyes of everyone.
Summarizing the common ground of the "Big Four", we found that they all have long-term stable emotional lives, all of them are engaged or married relatively early, and the wives silently support their husbands' careers behind their backs. It is precisely with a solid "big rear" that the big four can eliminate all kinds of interference and focus more on the tennis career.
In "The Big Four," Tim broke up in November 2019 with his ex-girlfriend, Lili Paul-Roncalli, an acrobatic dancer who won a contest on a German reality show Let's Dance.
Zverev has had multiple complicated relationships, with allegations of abuse by ATP against his ex-girlfriend Saripova still under investigation, and another ex-girlfriend, Brenda, who has given birth to a daughter for him, and Zverev is currently dating Tomara, an entertainment star who is 8 years older than him and has a history of multiple marriages.
Tsitsipas' current girlfriend, Theodora Petaras, graduated from New York University and is now a marketing manager at Habitas Hotel Group in London. The two met through family friends three years ago and started dating two years ago.
Previously, there were media outlets that Tsitsipas had fallen in love with his own female player Sakkari, a claim that was denied by both sides, and Sakary's current boyfriend was Konstantinos Mitsotakis, the son of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Tsitsipas is also a controversial player, having made Hong Kong-related remarks, tearing up Russian ancestry with Medvedev, "losing respect" to him for allegedly abusing the washroom suspension, arguing with Zverev Medvedev on suspicion of receiving coaching coaching, and chatting with Naomi Osaka that "each other is lonely and difficult to integrate into the tour."
After so much gossip, you should understand who I am more optimistic about among the "four little giants" and why I am optimistic about him, right? (Source: Tennis House Author: Yun Cirrus Yunshu)