Medvedev beats Edmund in the 1st round of the Western & Southern Open

Daniil Medvedev survives Kyle Edmund 6-2 7-5 in the 1^st round in Cincinnati on Tuesday after winning a huge battle. Medvedev is going to play against Benoit Paire in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The Russian in this set stepped up in great fashion to overplay the Brit and therefore he won 6-2 after breaking Edmund in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (5-2) game.

Kyle was completely knocked out in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).

2^nd set.

Medvedev had a great start in this set after breaking Edmund in the 1^st game (1-0). Yet, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for the Russian to win the set since Edmund succeeded in breaking back in the 4^th (2-2) and in the 8^th (5-3) game. The Russian kept his focus to break the Brit in the 9^th (4-5) and in the 11^th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).

Kyle couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 3-5 to 7-5).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Medvedev scored 63 points vs. Edmund’s 46 points.

Daniil was pretty focused in converting 71% of the break points that he conquered (5/7). On the other side, Edmund was exceptional in converting all the break points (2/2). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Medvedev and Edmund is 2-2.

Next Match: Daniil Medvedev vs. Benoit Paire – H2H and stats

Medvedev will square off with Paire in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Daniil Medvedev and Benoit Paire clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Medvedev (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Medvedev won 5-7 7-5 7-6⁴ in the 1^st round in Marseille back in 2017.