The Spanish Alexander Davidovicheighth seed, fell this Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Dubai tournament, on a hard court, against the first favorite, the Russian Daniel Medvedevwho ousted him in two sets (6-2 and 6-3) in search of reaffirming the crown.
The Malaga tennis player, whose best result this season was the quarterfinals he reached in January in Marseille, was unstoppable against a superior opponent who tipped the match in his favor from the start.
The first round was decided in just 37 minutes, in favor of the world number four, who saved up to four breaking points.
In the second set, the Russian was broken in the second and fourth games and, although he surrendered the next, he took the victory with ease, after saving four of the five break opportunities that his rival had in the match and won ten networks. points.
The finalist of Australian Open continues to dominate the confrontation between the two, now 4-0.
In the semifinals, Medvedev, who won the first position in the ATP ranking in 2022, will face the winner of the duel between the third seed. Hubert Hurkacz and the fifth favorite, the French Ugo Humbert.
The Kazakh Alexander Bublik and the Russian Andrey Rublev They will star in the other semifinal, after the withdrawal of the Czech Jiri Lehecka (with a score of 6-4, 4-1) and the American Sebastian Korda (6-4, 4-3 and withdrawal), respectively.
Source: La Verdad
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