Ending Medvedev with cramps on its debut at 1,000 Masters in Montecarlo

Daniil Medvedev He needed on Monday nearly three hours (2h.52 ‘) and three sets to fulfill his expected rematch against Russian Karen Khachanovwhere he lost last year at 1,000 masters from Montecarlo.

Medvedev, the eleventh world, won 7-5, 4-6 and 6-4 a clash in which he graduated with cramps and assisted on the left knee of the track doctor. Russian is a half -strain towards the network to shake his countryman at the end of the game.

Moscovita will play in second -round with Luxembourg Alexander Mullerpreviously defeated Argentine Camilo Iugo Carabelli for a double 6-4.

Daniil Medvedev suffered only two losses in eight quarrels with Khachanov. But one of them was on the only rivalry between them in the clay, certainly in Montecarlo, last year. Khachanov, Olympic’s silver in Tokyo 2021He won then and left his countrymen without options.

The former number one in the world retaliated on Monday. It is not difficult. She left the little taste she felt for this type of surface and asserted to a success that worked from start to end.

Twenty titles have been with the Medvedev career, which has not lifted a trophy since 2023. Only one of them is in the dust of brick. That person of that person in 1,000 masters from Rome. All the rest is on a hard track.

Medvedev, who was fulfilling his sixth presence in Montecarlo, never succeeded in the semifinal he reached in 2019, when He was separated by Serbian Dusan Lajovic from the final.

Despite his bad weather in this 2025, where he did not achieve three successes in the past, Khachanov put his countrymen against the ropes, but was not enough to repeat the success and advance this edition.