
Daniil Medvedev defeats the 2025 runner-up Valentin Royer 7-6(6) 6-3 in the 2nd round in Hangzhou on Saturday. The match lasted 1 hour and 49 minutes. His best achievement in this event was reaching the quarter in 2025. Here you can see his history at this event.
Medvedev added to his prize money $ 13,170 after winning this match. He has already won $ 31,405 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Russian will add $ 22,800 to his earnings to get in total $ 54,205 in total.
Highlights Daniil Medvedev vs. Valentin Royer Hangzhou Open – Hangzhou
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, the Russian scored 80 points vs. Valentin’s 68.
Medvedev
Daniil served very well to win 84% of the points (37/44) behind his first serve, and he won 54% points (15/28) on his second serve. The Russian blasted 16 aces and he committed 4 double faults. Medvedev won this match even if he was far from perfect in converting his break points after he converted only 25% (1/4) of the procured opportunities.
Royer
On the other side, Valentin wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/5). That was one of the key issues for his demise.
After this match, the head to head between Medvedev and Royer is 1-0 for Daniil.
Live score progression and stats
Neither player conceded a service game during this set. Therefore the affair had to be decided at the tiebreak. Finally, Daniil won a thrilling breaker 8-6 after a huge fight with 14 points played.
Tiebreak
The Russian won 5 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 5th (3-2), 9th (5-4), 13th (7-6) and 14th (8-6) point. On the other side, Royer won 3 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1), 7th (3-4) and 10th (5-5) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 5-4, 5-5, 6-5, 6-6, 7-6, 8-6
The Russian wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 1st game (0-0 40-A). On the other side, the Russian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 86 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Russian won just 2 points more than the French player (44-42). The Russian conceded 12 points on serve (29-12). on the other side of the net, the French player conceded 15 points on serve (30-15).
Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Daniil clinched in the 8th game (5-3) before ultimately winning the set (6-3).
Daniil converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 8th game (4-3 15-40). On the other side, Royer was unable to convert any of his 5 break points. He had 5 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 5th game (2-2 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).
They contested 62 points. The Russian was the winner of the set after clinching 10 points more than Valentin (36-26). Daniil lost 8 points on serve (22-8). Regarding the other side of the net, Valentin conceded 14 points on serve (18-14).
Tennis Scores in Hangzhou
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- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Valentin RoyerRoyer (7-66 6-3)
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- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Taro DanielDaniel (6-72 7-5 7-61)
- Kyrian JacquetJacquet – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-2 6-3)
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- Andrey RublevRublev – Rinky HijikataHijikata (6-3 6-3)
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