Medvedev’s race for Paris

RUSSIA’S Daniil Medvedev faces a fight to be fit for next month’s French Open after going under the knife to fix a hernia problem.

Medvedev (below) won the US Open last year and lost the Australian Open final to Rafa Nadal in January.

Now he faces surgery and is in a race to make the Grand Slam in Paris, which starts on May 22.

He said: “The last months I have been playing with a small hernia.

“Together with my team I have decided to have a small procedure done to fix the problem. I will likely be out for the next one to two months.”