In a battle of former world no.1 Novak Djokovic survives Daniil Medvedev 6-3 6-7(5) 7-6(2) in the Round Robin at the Nitto ATP Finals on Friday after conquering a huge battle. Djokovic will try to keep the momentum against Taylor Fritz in the semifinal. The battle lasted 2 hours and 45 minutes. The Serbian won this tournament 4 times in 2008, 2012, 2013 and 2015. Here you can see his history at this event.
Highlights Novak Djokovic vs. Daniil Medvedev Nitto ATP Finals – Turin
it’s a complete nightmare
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
After this contest, the head to head between Djokovic and Medvedev is 8-4 for Novak.
Draw and next match H2H: Novak Djokovic vs. Taylor Fritz – stats
Djokovic will come up against Fritz in the semifinal.
This will be the 6th time that Novak Djokovic and Taylor Fritz play each other. The head to head is 5-0 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on I.hard.
Live score progression and stats
The set was pretty even as both players managed to hold serve with the notable exception of 1 break that Novak conquered in the 8th game (5-3) before finally winning the set (6-3).
Novak converted 50% of his break points (1/2). He had 2 break points opportunities in the 6th (3-2 30-40) and the 8th game (4-3 40-A). On the other side, the Russian wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 7th game (3-3 30-40).
They contested 66 points. Djokovic was the winner of the set after clinching 10 points more than the Russian (38-28). Novak dropped 8 points on serve (22-8). Regarding the other side of the net, the Russian conceded 16 points on serve (20-16).
Nothing could divide these 2 players that had to fight for the set only at the tiebreak. Finally, the Russian won the breaker at 7-5.
Tiebreak
Medvedev won 4 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1), 6th (4-2), 11th (6-5) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Novak won 4 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (2-2), 8th (3-5) and 9th (4-5) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 5-5, 6-5, 7-5
They contested 91 points. It’s worth to point out that, The Russian won this set even if he scored less points 3 than the Serbian (44-47). Medvedev conceded 17 points on serve (31-17). Regarding the other side of the net, the Serbian conceded 13 points on serve (30-13).
Djokovic won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping his serve in the 9th (4-5) game, The Serbian broke back in the 10th (5-5) game before bringing the set at the breaker that he won 7-2.
Tiebreak
Novak won 3 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 6th (5-1) and 9th (7-2) point.
Novak won the tiebreak 7-2 after he conquered a decisive 5-1 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 5-1, 5-2, 6-2, 7-2
They contested 98 points. Djokovic was the one to win the set after conquering 8 more points than Daniil (53-45). Djokovic lost 22 points on serve (37-22). On the other side, Daniil conceded 16 points on serve (23-16).
Tennis Scores in Nitto ATP Finals
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (6-3 6-75 7-62) – Stats and score progression
- Rafael NadalNadal – Casper RuudRuud (7-5 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Taylor FritzFritz – Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime (7-64 6-75 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (6-3 6-711 7-61) – Stats and score progression
- Casper RuudRuud – Taylor FritzFritz (6-3 4-6 7-66) – Stats and score progression
- Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime – Rafael NadalNadal (6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Andrey RublevRublev – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (6-77 6-3 7-67) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Taylor Harry FritzHarry Fritz (5-0) – H2H details and stats
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Andrey RublevRublev (6-4) – H2H details and stats