Improving the performance of the previous edition was easy, because he lost in his debut against the Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild. He just gave a big surprise by becoming the 1000 ATP Masters champion in Rome, on clay, the surface he would erase from the professional calendar if it were up to him.
He had no new reason to change his mind. The Russian Daniel Medvedev 28 years old and world No. 5, he suffered a new failure on clay, at Roland Garros. He would leave, as he emphasized during the tour, with his thrown shoes, soiling everything with brick dust of clay, which he hated.
It will turn to more polished grass sooner than desired, however. Roland Garros 2021 quarterfinalist, lost this time in the round of 16, against Alex de Minaur, who passed him 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 and 6-3 in 2h.49′.
Medvedev called for medical help, revealing a massive blister on his right foot. It was all trouble against a rival he had outscored on six of eight occasions, although this was the series premiere on the ground.
And De Miñaur, 25 years old and number 11, based in Alicante and the first Australian to reach the Paris quarterfinals since Lleyton Hewitt in 2024, twenty years ago. Adolfo Gutiérrez’s pupil equaled the quarterfinals of the 2020 US Open, his best result in a Grand Slam.
Source: La Verdad
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