We’re the two best friends that anyone could have!Andrey Rublev and Daniil Medvedev are opening up on their longtime friendship in ways never before seen in a new video feature by the ATP Tour.
The biggest takeaway from the new clip, which the men’s circuit heralded this week as the video “you’ve all been waiting for”? The tear-stained memory (of course) of the first time that the two ever played.
The pair’s friendship began when both were kindergarteners, as Rublev recalled playing Medvedev in the quarterfinals of a local Russian tournament when they were “5 or 6 years old.”
“I see the guy, a sleeveless T-shirt, only one racquet, and I say, ‘What is this? He’s in quarterfinal with me? No chance I’m going to lose to him,'” Rublev recalled.
Emotions, as expected, ran high in a match that Rublev eventually won.
