Rafael Nadal survives Daniil Medvedev 6-73 6-3 7-64 in the Round Robin in London on Wednesday after winning a huge battle. Nadal will face off with Stefanos Tsitsipas in the Round Robin. After winning this match, Nadal will stay world no.1 by the end of the year if Djokovic doesn’t win the competition.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The set went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Finally, Medvedev won the breaker at 3.
2nd set.
Nadal had a boost of confidence at the beginning of the set after breaking Medvedev in the 1st game (1-0). Nadal extended his lead after breaking the Russian in the 9th (6-3) game before managing to win the set.
3rd set.
Medvedev had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Nadal in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. However, Rafael managed to stage a great comeback to break Daniil in the 8th (3-5) and in the 10th (5-5) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.
A crucial moment of the match was when the Spaniard won 5 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 1-5 to 6-5. Medvedev had a also a match point that Rafa saved in style.
Yet also the Russian won 4 consecutive games from 0-0 to 4-0
Statistics
At the end of the match, Rafael scored 108 points vs. the Russian’s 105 points.
Rafael won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points because he converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, Daniil was far from perfect in converting his break points because he converted only 33% of his break points (2/6). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Nadal and Medvedev is 3-0 for Rafael.
Highlights Rafael Nadal vs. Daniil Medvedev Nitto ATP Finals – London
Nadal’s Interview
After the match, Nadal commented:
“Daniil is super tough mentally. He showed everybody during all this year what he achieved. If you are not able to be very solid mentally, it’s impossible, honestly.
Today is one of these days that one time of 1,000 you lose this match, and it happened today. Very happy for that. Very sorry for him, honestly, because losing a match like this is tough, and it’s painful. I feel very sorry for Daniil. He’s a good guy, I think, and anyway, he should be very proud about all the things that he’s doing.”
Next Match: Rafael Nadal vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas – stats
Nadal will face Tsitsipas in the Round Robin.
This will be the 6th time that Rafael Nadal and Stefanos Tsitsipas play each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Nadal (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
The last time that they played each other, Nadal won 6-3 6-4 in the semifinal in Rome back in May 2019.
Tennis Scores in London
- Rafael NadalNadal – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (6-73 6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Roger FedererFederer – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (7-62 6-3) – See score progression
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Novak DjokovicDjokovic (6-75 6-3 7-65) – See score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (7-65 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Rafael NadalNadal (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Rafael NadalNadal – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (4-1) – See H2H details
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Roger FedererFederer (26-22) – See H2H details
- Dominic ThiemThiem – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (2-1) – See H2H details
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Alexander ZverevZverev (1-4) – See H2H details
