Medvedev pulled off the epic to stage a tense match and advance to the round of 16

Russian Daniil Medvedev, second seeded in the Masters 1,000 in Madrid, defeated American Alexander Shevchenko in the round of 32 4-6, 6-1 and 7-5who played for the first time in his career against a ‘top-10’ and left a good impression on the Caja Mágica.

In a sort of meeting between master and apprentice, the most inexperienced player never loses face in the game and forced his rival -a friend of videogames- to work tirelessly, for 2 hours and 42 minutes, to return from a set match.

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This is the first time, in four appearances, that Medvedev has won more than one match in this tournament.

the meetingfirst of the day at Manolo Santana of Caja Mágica, experienced some brief interruptions: while Medvedev was looking for a ball in the pots decorating the track, to remove the camera from the net, which was damaged, to attend to the former world number one with a slight nosebleed and help Schevchenko with a strained leg.

Medvedev began to get nervous, with constant complaints. They lost their first two serves, with many errors, and found themselves down 4-0 in just twenty minutes on court.

After playing his first game, on his next serve he had to save two set points and on his next serve he had three break points for the first time, which he took advantage of at first, forcing Shevchenko’s mistake.

But he still needed to recover one more serve, and Medvedev couldn’t, in a disastrous tenth game that he threw overboard.

Delete and new account. The former world number one’s right hand began to adjust to the lines and the parallel backhand increased a good yield of points, leading him 5-0. On the contrary, Shevchenko, coming from the previous, number 96 in the world -the best of his life-, could not lift the ball or run like at the beginning of the game. 6-1 fell to Medvedev’s side.

The first bars of the third set were the most intense, with Shevchenko focusing on the attack and Medvedev trying to control the pace of exchanges. The two times that he achieved ‘break’, his rival immediately signed a counter-break.

At 5-5, Shevchenko hurt her leg returning the ball and was crippled in the game., but lost his service. Medvedev served to win and, after a last-ditch resistance attempt by his compatriot, he took the game.

The player with the most victories (now 32) and the most tournaments (4) this season will meet in the round of 16 with the winner of the match between Aslan Karatsev, also a Russian from the previous round, and Alex de Minaur , from Australia.