Daniil Medvedev wins against Evgeny Donskoy 7-5 6-3 in the 2nd round in St. Petersburg on Thursday. Medvedev will fight against Andrey Rublev in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Medvedev won the set after he broke Donskoy in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 11th (6-5) game. Donskoy tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8th (4-4) game. However, Daniil didn’t lose the lead before winning the set 7-5.
2nd set.
Medvedev started the set in the best possible way after breaking Donskoy in the 1st game (1-0). Medvedev extended his lead after breaking Donskoy in the 9th (6-3) game before managing to win the set.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Medvedev scored 69 points vs. Evgeny’s 51 points.
Daniil served exceptionally well to win 81% of the points (25/31) behind his first serve, and he won 64% points (14/22) on his second serve. Daniil was effective when converting 50% of the break points that he procured (4/8). On the other side, Donskoy was far from perfect in converting his break points because he converted only 33% of his break points (1/3). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Medvedev and Donskoy is 2-0 for Daniil.
Next Match: Daniil Medvedev vs. Andrey Rublev – stats
Medvedev will square off with Rublev in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Medvedev (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
The last time that they played, Medvedev won 6-2 6-3 in the quarter in Cincinnati back in August 2019.
Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Roberto Carballes BaenaCarballes Baena (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Richard BerankisBerankis (6-4 6-75 6-1) – See score progression
- Borna CoricCoric – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (6-75 7-5 3-0 ret.) – See score progression
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Casper RuudRuud – Salvatore CarusoCaruso (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Joao SousaSousa – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (7-62 6-4) – See score progression
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (7-62 6-2) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Joao SousaSousa (2-1) – See H2H details
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Andrey RublevRublev (1-0) – See H2H details
- Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini – Egor GerasimovGerasimov (0-0) – See H2H details
- Casper RuudRuud – Borna CoricCoric (0-0) – See H2H details
