HEROIC. Medvedev fights cramps to beat Popyrin in the 3rd round. HIGHLIGHTS – MIAMI RESULTS

MIAMI OPEN - MIAMI DRAW AND RESULTS. Medvedev hustles Popyrin

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Luke Meyer
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Medvedev Cramps

Daniil Medvedev victorious over Alexei Popyrin 7-6(3) 6-7(7) 6-4 in the 3rd round in Miami on Sunday. The battle lasted 2 hours and 37 minutes. This run will match his best result in this tournament. Here you can see his history at this event.

The battle was an absolute thriller. Medvedev looked in complete control when he was leading 7-6 5-2. Later Daniil had 3 consecutive match points on Popyrin serve (7-6 5-4), but he couldn’t convert them. Therefore things got to the breaker and the Australian brought the affair to the decider. Medvedev was hit by cramps, but he amazingly found the way to win the match while he was barely walking.

Medvedev
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Medvedev's Record

The Russian added to his prize money $ 14,000 after winning this match. He has won already $ 40,000 after this win. If he wins the next match, Daniil will add $ 21,000 to his earnings to get in total $ 61,000 in total.

Highlights Daniil Medvedev vs. Alexei Popyrin Miami Open – Miami

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Medvedev
Popyrin
Daniil Medvedev
7-63 6-77 6-4
2h:37
Alexei Popyrin
121
121
Total points
106
106
45
45
Winners
54
54
37%
37%
Ratio Winners
51%
51%
-- Serve --
10
10
Aces
8
8
6
6
Double Faults
7
7
50%
50%
1st in
57%
57%
92%
92%
1st won
73%
73%
45/49
45/49
1st won
54/74
54/74
55%
55%
2nd won
47%
47%
27/49
27/49
2nd won
26/55
26/55
-- Break Points --
2/9
2/9
Total
1/1
1/1
22%
22%
Won
100%
100%
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At the end of the match, the Russian scored 121 points vs. Popyrin’s 106.

Medvedev

Daniil served pretty well to win 92% of the points (45/49) behind his first serve, and he won 55% points (27/49) on his second serve. Daniil blasted 10 aces and he committed 6 double faults. The Russian won this match even if he was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points after he converted only 22% (2/9) of the procured opportunities.

Popyrin

On the other side, The Australian was absolutely great in converting the only break point that he converted. Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this encounter, the head to head between Medvedev and Popyrin is 3-0 for Daniil.

Daniil Medvedev Draw info

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The set went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Eventually, the Russian won the tiebreak at 7-3.

Tiebreak

Daniil won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (3-1), 9th (6-3) and 10th (7-3) point. On the other side, Popyrin won 2 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1) and 7th (2-5) point.

Daniil won the tiebreak 7-3 after he conquered a decisive 5-1 lead.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 5-2, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3

They contested 80 points. Medvedev was the one to win the set after conquering 10 points more than Alexei (45-35). Medvedev lost 8 points on serve (26-8). On the losing side, the Australian conceded 19 points on serve (27-19).

Alexei won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 4th (1-3) game, Alexei broke back in the 9th (4-5) game before bringing the set at the breaker that he won 9-7.

Tiebreak

Alexei won 5 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (3-1), 12th (6-6), 13th (7-6) and 16th (9-7) point. On the other side, the Russian won 4 minibreaks in the 5th (2-3), 7th (3-4), 10th (5-5) and 14th (7-7) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-5, 5-5, 6-5, 6-6, 7-6, 7-7, 8-7, 9-7

Popyrin was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 9th game (3-5 0-40). Alexei saved 1 set point when he was trailing 4-5. On the other side, the Russian was perfect in converting all his break points in the 2nd (1-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 4th (2-1 40-A) and the 10th game (5-4 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40).

They played 89 points. It’s worth to point out that, Alexei won this set even if he scored less points 3 than the Russian (43-46). The Australian dropped 22 points on serve (34-22). On the other side, the Russian conceded 9 points on serve (24-9).

Both players managed to hold their service games for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Medvedev snatched in the 7th game (4-3) prior to ultimately conquering the set (6-4).

The Russian was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 7th game (3-3 30-40). On the other side, Daniil didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They contested 57 points. Daniil was the one to win the set after conquering 5 points more than Popyrin (31-26). Medvedev dropped 8 points on serve (20-8). On the other side, the Australian conceded 11 points on serve (18-11).

 

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