Daniil Medvedev aces Taylor Harry Fritz 7-6(1) 6-3 in the quarter in Cincinnati on Friday. Medvedev will square off with Stefanos Tsitsipas in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 37 minutes. The Russian won this tournament once in 2019. Here you can see his history at this event.
The Russian added to his prize money $ 131,660 after conquering this match. He has won already $ 289,655 up to now in the tournament. If he wins the next match, Daniil will add $ 240,055 to his earnings to get in total $ 529,710.
Highlights Daniil Medvedev vs. Taylor Harry Fritz Western & Southern Open – Cincinnati
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Medvedev scored 77 points vs. the American’s 69.
Medvedev
Medvedev served exceptionally well to win 76% of the points (41/54) behind his first serve, and he won 57% points (17/30) on his second serve. Daniil struck 18 aces and he committed 4 double faults. Daniil won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points as he converted only 33% (1/3) of the procured opportunities.
Fritz
On the other side, Fritz wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/6). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this contest, the head to head between Medvedev and Fritz is 1-0 for Daniil.
Draw and next match H2H: Daniil Medvedev vs. Stefanos Tsitsipas – stats
Medvedev will face Tsitsipas in the semifinal.
This will be the 10th time that Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas square off. The head to head is 7-2 for Medvedev (see full H2H stats), 5-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Medvedev won 7-65 4-6 6-4 6-1 in the semifinal in Australian open back in January 2022.
Live score progression and stats
Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. the Russian had no problems to conquer the tiebreak 7-1.
Tiebreak
Medvedev won 3 minibreaks in the 4th (3-1), 5th (4-1) and 8th (7-1) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 6-1, 7-1
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. On the other side, Taylor was unable to convert any of his 6 break points. He had 6 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 30-40), the 6th (3-2 15-40 and 30-40), the 10th (5-4 40-A) and the 12th game (6-5 40-A and 40-A).
They contested 97 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Daniil won just 3 more points than Taylor (50-47). Medvedev lost 20 points on serve (39-20). On the other side, the American conceded 11 points on serve (27-11).
Medvedev overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Taylor Harry Fritz in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That break was the key and it was sufficient for the Russian to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks.
Medvedev converted 33% of his break points (1/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 2nd game (1-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Daniil didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 49 points. Medvedev won 5 points more than Fritz (27-22). The Russian surrendered 6 points on serve (20-6). On the losing side, Fritz conceded 7 points on serve (16-7).
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