Daniil Medvedev aces Jannik Sinner 1-6 6-1 6-2 in the 2nd round in Marseille on Thursday. Medvedev will fight against Gilles Simon in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Sinner commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Medvedev in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Sinner reinforced his lead after breaking Daniil in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
2nd set.
Daniil was far too good to concede just 1 game before breaking the Italian 2 times and win the set 6-1.
Jannik was eclipsed in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).
3rd set.
Medvedev had a racing start in this set after breaking Sinner in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. Daniil reinforced his lead after breaking Jannik in the 3rd (3-0) game before conquering the set (6-2).
Certainly, a key moment was when the Russian won 4 consecutive games in the 3rd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Daniil scored 74 points vs. the Italian’s 51 points.
Daniil served exceptionally well to win 79% of the points (23/29) behind his first serve, and he won 69% points (20/29) on his second serve. Medvedev didn’t lose the concentration in converting 57% of the break points that he conquered (4/7). On the other side, Sinner was absolutely great in converting all the break points (2/2). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Medvedev and Sinner is 1-0 for Daniil.
Next Match H2H: Daniil Medvedev vs. Gilles Simon – stats
Medvedev will square off with Simon in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Daniil Medvedev and Gilles Simon square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Simon (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on I.hard.
The last time that they played, Simon won 6-74 6-4 6-3 in the semifinal in London back in 2019.
Tennis Scores in Marseille
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Marin CilicCilic (6-4 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Gilles SimonSimon – Aljaz BedeneBedene (7-66 6-4) – See score progression
- Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime – Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert (6-0 6-76 7-69) – See score progression
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Jannik SinnerSinner (1-6 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – David GoffinGoffin (6-4 7-65) – See score progression
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Hubert HurkaczHurkacz (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexander BublikBublik – Benoit PairePaire (3-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Mikael YmerYmer (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas (1-0) – See H2H details
- Egor GerasimovGerasimov – Felix Auger AliassimeAuger Aliassime (0-0) – See H2H details
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Gilles SimonSimon (0-2) – See H2H details
- Alexander BublikBublik – Denis ShapovalovShapovalov (0-0) – See H2H details