Daniil Medvedev beats Novak Djokovic 6-4 6-4 in the semifinal in Dubai on Friday. Medvedev will face off with Andrey Rublev in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 35 minutes. This will be his most significant achievement in this event. Previously, the best he could do was reach the 2nd round in 2017. Here you can see his previous results at this event.
Daniil added to his prize money $ 134,195 after winning this match. He has already won $ 287,320 after this win. If he wins the next match, Daniil will add $ 246,670 to his earnings to get in total $ 533,990 in total.
Highlights Daniil Medvedev vs. Novak Djokovic Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:35
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 63 points vs. the Serbian’s 61.
Medvedev
Medvedev served extremely well to win 78% of the points (28/36) behind his first serve, and he won 50% points (13/26) on his second serve. The Russian was effective at converting 75% of the break points that he procured (3/4).
Djokovic
On the other side, Novak was fantastic in converting the only break point that he converted. Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Medvedev and Djokovic is 5-9 for Novak.
Draw and next match H2H: Daniil Medvedev vs. Andrey Rublev – stats
Medvedev will face Rublev in the final.
This will be the 8th time that Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev play each other. The head to head is 5-2 for Medvedev (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Medvedev won 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Budapest Challenger back in 2016.
Live score progression and stats
The Russian won the set after he broke the Serbian in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game. Novak tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (5-3) game. However, Medvedev managed to stay calm and finish the job to conquer the set 6-4.
The Russian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 30.
It is worth noting that a key moment of this set was when Daniil won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the game count from 1-2 to 5-2.
Daniil converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 5th (2-2 30-40 and 40-A), the 6th (4-2 30-40) and the 11th game (6-3 40-A). On the other side, the Serbian was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 8th game (2-5 30-40).
They played 64 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Russian won just 2 points more than Djokovic (33-31). The Russian conceded 10 points on serve (18-10). On the losing side, Novak conceded 15 points on serve (21-15).
Medvedev was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Novak Djokovic in the 2nd game (2-0). Medvedev improved his lead after breaking Novak before winning the set (6-4).
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. Also, on the other side, Daniil didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 60 points. This set was so close that, Medvedev won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. Medvedev surrendered 11 points on serve (23-11). In addition, on the other side, Novak conceded 7 points on serve (19-7).
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Novak DjokovicDjokovic (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Alexander ZverevZverev (6-3 7-69) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Andrey RublevRublev (4-2) – H2H details and stats
