Daniil Medvedev didn’t let it surprise him and reached the quarterfinals of the Beijing tournament this Saturday. The Russian, second seed, defeated Alex de Minaur 7-6(3), 6-3 in almost two hours of the match which he clearly dominated until halfway through the first set.
At that moment he took his foot off the accelerator, something the Australian took advantage of to balance the set and take it to a tiebreak, where the finalist of the last US Open shot ex officio to win 7-3.
The second set is a bit more comfortable. A single break was enough to put a lock on the match and advance to the penultimate round, where will face the winner of the duel between Andrey Rublev and Ugo Humbert.
In another match of the morning, Nicolás Jarry beat Matteo Arnaldi 7-6(4), 6-7(4) and 6-3 in two hours and 58 minutes. The Chilean tennis player, number 23 in the world ranking, took advantage of his good service from the first moment, as compensation for the Italian, who in the second game had already accumulated three double faults that favored the break of the Chilean.
The tennis player born in Santiago de Chile had another break well defended by Arnaldi (n.48, ATP) in the fourth game on the center court where one of the athletes also had to face the midday sun in the capital while his rival and the fans took refuge in the shade.
From that moment, the Italian increased his success rate on first serves and was able to break the Chilean giant’s serve to level the match until it reached the tie break which was eventually won 7-4.
For the second set, the two contenders, who participated for the first time in this ATP 500 and have never met, showed the closeness of the match in a game in the sixth game where the series was exchanged at the net. the crowd ended up cheering the tennis players and Jarry evened the score.
Later, both Jarry and Arnaldi returned their serveswhich allowed the Italian to have two match points which the Chilean answered aggressively to play a new tiebreaker game which this time would fall in his side (4-7).
The third act became unbalanced in the sixth game, when the player from Santiago achieved the ‘break’ in his fifth attempt and took advantage of Arnaldi’s apparent fatigue, where the almost three-hour battle seemed long and possibly reaching his passage to the next round.
Jarry will face off in the quarterfinals to the winner of the match that closes the day between Alejandro Davidovich (n.25) and Alexander Zverev, eighth seed in the Beijing tournament.
Source: La Verdad
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