Athletistic/Tennis. On February 28, Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev reached the quarterfinals of the tournament in Dubai (UAE).
In the second round, Medvedev defeated Italian Lorenzo Sonego with a score of 3:6, 6:3, 6:3. The athletes spent 2 hours and 1 minute on the field.
Medvedev never missed a serve, committed four double faults and converted 4 break points out of 10 won. Sonego has seven aces, a double fault and two converted break points out of nine.
It is worth noting that for the first time in his career, Medvedev won a match at the ATP level without hitting a single ace.
Serving is one of Medvedev’s strong points. Last year, he had 613 aces in 80 matches (the fifth highest number on the tour).
“I arrived on the pitch and I didn’t feel good. I was too nervous, I was too tense – although that rarely happens to me. I made a lot of mistakes, I felt a lot of stress. nervousness. Sometimes it might take a set to calm me down. If I had continued doing what I was doing in the first match, then nothing good would have come of it. I had to change something, myself calm down. If it hadn’t worked, it would have It was his day, but it worked for me.
Honestly, I feel good here. The court here is quite fast, the conditions are good and the weather is nice in the evening: neither cold, nor hot, nor too humid, even if today in Dubai it was more humid than usual! Even if the first set isn’t great, I know I can do well, so it’s a good feeling to know you can do well.
My nervousness? Sometimes emotions take over and that’s when you do the wrong things, like start talking to your box. Of course you can do it, but only one or more times per set, but when you start arguing after every point you lose, it’s bad because you lose focus on the things you need to do. After the first set, I managed to convince myself that I should focus on the right things and do what I had to do,” Medvedev said after the victory.
To reach the semi-finals of the tournament in Dubai, Medvedev will fight with the representative of Spain, Alejandro Davidovich-Fokina.
Another Russian, Karen Khachanov, failed to advance past the second round of the tournament. In the second round, Khachanov lost to the 36th racket in the world to the representative of the Czech Republic Jiri Legechka, with a score of 7:6 (8:6), 6:7 (5:7), 4: 6.
In the quarter-finals in Dubai, Legechka will face the 23rd world racket from Kazakhstan, Alexander Bublik.
The prize pool for the Dubai tournament is $2,941,785. The competition will last until March 2.
Andrey Andreev, Sport.Ru
Source: Sport
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