Daniil Medvedev has now won 21 career titles in 21 different cities after triumph in Almaty

It's safe to say that Daniil Medvedev is back.

After a tough summer that culminated in a first-round exit at the US Open, the former world No. 1 reached the quarterfinals in Hangzhou and then back-to-back semifinals in Beijing and Shanghai.

And on Sunday in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Medvedev not only won his first ATP title of the year, it was actually his first ATP title in nearly two and a half years—his last one had come in Rome in May of 2023.

He outfoxed Frenchman Corentin Moutet in the final, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3.

"It feels great," Medvedev said afterwards. "I was not super happy with the way I played in some moments of the match, but to win feels amazing, and it means in the most important points of the match I managed to play good. The last game was actually incredible.

"I'm happy to win the title—it continues my funny story of 21 different titles in 21 different cities, so I'm happy about it."

And that brings us right to today's Stat of the Day: Medvedev has now won 21 career titles in 21 different cities around the world.

MEDVEDEV'S 21 CAREER TITLES BY CITY:

• Almaty [2025]
• Cincinnati [2019]
• Doha [2023]
• Dubai [2023]
• London—ATP Finals [2020]
• Los Cabos [2022]
• Mallorca [2021]
• Marseille [2021]
• Miami [2023]
• New York—US Open [2021]
• Paris [2020]
• Rome [2023]
• Rotterdam [2023]
• Shanghai [2019]
• Sofia [2019]
• St. Petersburg [2019]
• Sydney [2018]
• Tokyo [2018]
• Toronto [2021]
• Vienna [2022]
• Winston-Salem [2018]

Those 21 titles are also spread out across 17 different countries—four in the United States (Cincinnati, Miami, US Open and Winston-Salem), two in France (Marseille and Paris) and one each in Australia (Sydney), Austria (Vienna), Bulgaria (Sofia), Canada (Toronto), China (Shanghai), Italy (Rome), Japan (Tokyo), Mexico (Los Cabos), the Netherlands (Rotterdam), Qatar (Doha), Russia (St. Petersburg), Spain (Mallorca), the UAE (Dubai) and the UK (ATP Finals).

And four different continents, too—he's captured nine titles in Europe, six in North America, five in Asia and one in Australia.

Over the next two weeks, Medvedev will play two more indoor events—the ATP 500 in Vienna and the Masters 1000 in Paris—and if he goes on to win either of them his pattern will be broken, as he's triumphed at both tournaments before (Paris in 2020 and Vienna in 2022).

But if he qualifies for the ATP Finals in Turin, he could keep it going—he's won the ATP Finals before, in 2020, but that's when it was held at the O2 in London, so Turin, Italy would be a new city on his list.

And he's not out of reach of Turin, either. His victory in Almaty will bump him up from No. 15 to No. 12 in the ATP Race to Turin, and with Jack Draper (No. 10) out for the season, he's effectively the third player out of the Top 8, after Felix Auger-Aliassime and Casper Ruud.