Sebastian Korda conquers Daniil Medvedev 7-6(7) 6-3 7-6(4) in the 3rd round in Melbourne on Friday. Korda will square off with Hubert Hurkacz in the 4th round. This will be his most significant achievement in this tournament. In the past, the best he could do in the past was reaching the 3rd round in 2022. Here you can see his history at this event.
Korda added to his prize money $ 110,325 after winning this match. He has won already $ 338,250 after this win. If he wins the next match, Sebastian will add $ 217,000 to his earnings to get in total $ 555,250 in total.
Highlights Sebastian Korda vs. Daniil Medvedev Australian Open – Melbourne
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
2h:59
After this contest, the head to head between Korda and Medvedev is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Sebastian Korda vs. Hubert Hurkacz – stats
Korda will face Hurkacz in the 4th round.
This will be the 2nd time that Sebastian Korda and Hubert Hurkacz square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Hurkacz (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
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Korda enjoyed quite a good start of the set after breaking Daniil Medvedev in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Korda to win the set since Medvedev succeeded in breaking back in the 6th (2-4), in the 8th (4-4) and in the 10th (5-5) game. The American kept his cool before winning the set at the tiebreak at 7.
Sebastian failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 15.
Tiebreak
Sebastian won 5 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (3-1), 9th (5-4), 13th (7-6) and 16th (9-7) point. On the other side, Daniil won 4 minibreaks in the 3rd (1-2), 6th (3-3), 10th (5-5) and 14th (7-7) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 4-4, 5-4, 5-5, 6-5, 6-6, 7-6, 7-7, 8-7, 9-7
Korda converted 37% of his break points (3/8). He had 8 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 3rd (2-0 40-A), the 4th (3-1 40-A) and the 9th game (4-4 40-A and 40-A). Furthermore, on the other side, the Russian converted 75% of his break points (3/4). He had his opportunities in the 6th (1-4 30-40), the 8th (3-4 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9th game (4-5 15-40).
They contested 111 points. It’s worth to point out that, The American won this set even if he scored less points 1 than Medvedev (55-56). Sebastian lost 23 points on serve (23-23). On the other side, Daniil conceded 32 points on serve (33-32).
Korda was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Daniil Medvedev in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That break was the key for Sebastian to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks.
Korda was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 2nd game (1-0 30-40). On the other side, Daniil wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 1st game (0-0 30-40).
They contested 53 points. The American was the winner of the set after clinching 5 more points than Daniil (29-24). Korda surrendered 10 points on serve (21-10). On the other side, Daniil conceded 8 points on serve (14-8).
Korda had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Daniil Medvedev in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Korda to win the set as Medvedev managed to break back in the 8th (4-4) game. Korda kept his cool before winning the set at the tiebreak at 4.
Tiebreak
The American won 3 minibreaks in the 1st (1-0), 4th (4-0) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Medvedev won a minibreak in the 10th (4-6) point.
The American won the tiebreak 7-4 after he conquered a decisive 4-0 lead.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0, 4-1, 5-1, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4, 7-4
The American was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 1st game (0-0 0-40). Furthermore, on the other side, Daniil was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 8th game (3-4 40-A).
They contested 76 points. This set was so close that, Korda won this set even if he scored the same amount of points as his opponent. Korda conceded 14 points on serve (28-14). Regarding the other side of the net, Medvedev conceded 10 points on serve (24-10).
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