Russian tennis player Daniel Medvedv, number three in the world ranking, defeated his “demons” and confirmed his qualification for the quarterfinals of Rome Masters 1,000after defeating the German 6-2 and 7-6 (3) this Tuesday Alexander Zverev in almost two hours of play.
It was a victory the Moscow tennis player seemed determined to destroy when he faced the public midway through the second set after seeing how Zverev broke his serve in a game where Medvedev had a 40-0 lead.
Comeback that the Russian player seemed to blame the public, whom he scolded for not even letting him speak to the chair umpire, whom he did not listen to because of the noise coming from the stands.
An altercation that seemed to completely derail Medvedev, who went from having the second set on track (3-4), after breaking Zverev’s serve, to finding himself on the brink of a third set, after being 5- 4. on the marker.
But Daniil Medvedev is not ready for anything or anyone to end the good feelings he will leave this year at the Foro Itálica, a “cursed” track for the Muscovite so far, who until this season has not won a game in his four previous appearances in the main draw of the Roman tournament.
An honest example of the Russian’s problems on clay, a surface for which Medvedev, 27, has not hesitated to publicly show his dislike time and again.
Something that seems to have changed this season where the Russian, who reached the quarterfinals in Monte Carlo and the round of 16 in Madrid, tried to remember the tennis player who in 2019 played at the end of Barcelona, where a specialist His like fell first. The Austrian Dominic Thiem, and the semifinals in Monaco, after defeating no less than the Serbian Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals.
The good results that Medvedev, who has recorded four titles this season, seems determined to repeat in Rome, after a sensational first set in which he completely defeated Alexander Zverev (6-2) in just thirty ‘t two minutes of playing.
A script that seemed to repeat itself in the second set, despite the German’s improvement, after the Russian player put himself up 3-4 after breaking Alexander Zverev’s serve.
But when everything seemed to be heading for 5-4 with 50-0 in favor of the Russian on the scoreboard, came Zverev’s reaction that unleashed the “demons” that sometimes play such tricks on Medvedev.
Demons that the Russian knows how to stop this time to finally win 6-2 and 7-6 (3) and reach the quarterfinals where Medvedev will face the German Yannick Hanfmann, executioner in the eighth of the Russian Andrey Rublev
Source: La Verdad
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