On Sunday in New York, the 25-year-old Russian shattered Novak Djokovic's dream to win his first Grand Slam tournament.
A cold realist foiling machine, Medvedev is also warm-blooded.
The Muscovite, calm and sympathetic in life, can become impulsive and dirty on the court.
Portrait of one of the spearheads of the new generation, born in Moscow but polished in France where his family moved to live with him in 2014.