Daniil Medvedev rolls over Jan-Lennard Struff 6-2 6-1 in the 3rd round in Cincinnati on Thursday after playing a good match to come up against Andrey Rublev in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Medvedev started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Struff in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. Daniil improved his lead after breaking Struff in the 8th (6-2) game before managing to win the set.
2nd set.
Medvedev was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Struff in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 5-0. The Russian extended his lead after breaking Struff in the 4th (4-0) game before winning the set (6-1).
A crucial moment of the match was when the Russian won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 5-0.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Daniil scored 65 points vs. Jan-Lennard’s 42 points.
The Russian served extremely well to win 76% of the points (28/37) behind his first serve, and he won 53% points (9/17) on his second serve. Daniil won this match even if he was not so effective in converting his break points because he converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, Jan-Lennard wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/3). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Medvedev and Struff is 3-0 for Daniil.
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Next Match: Daniil Medvedev vs. Andrey Rublev – stats
Medvedev will come up against Rublev in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev since this will be the first time that they will square off at pro level.
The last time that they squared off, Medvedev won 6-3 6-2 in the 2nd round in Budapest Challenger back in 2016.
Tennis Scores in Cincinnati
- Daniil MedvedevDaniil – Jan-Lennard StruffJan-Lennard (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
- Richard GasquetRichard – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanDiego (7-66 6-3) – See score progression
- Andrey RublevAndrey – Roger FedererRoger (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- David GoffinDavid – Adrian MannarinoAdrian (7-66 6-2) – See score progression
- Novak DjokovicNovak – Pablo Carreno-BustaPablo (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Yoshihito NishiokaYoshihito – Alex De MinaurAlex (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Roberto Bautista AgutRoberto – Miomir KecmanovicMiomir (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
- Lucas PouilleLucas – Karen KhachanovKaren (6-73 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Roberto Bautista AgutRoberto – Richard GasquetRichard (4-1) – See H2H details
- Novak DjokovicNovak – Lucas PouilleLucas (1-0) – See H2H details
- Yoshihito NishiokaYoshihito – David GoffinDavid (1-1) – See H2H details
- Andrey RublevAndrey – Daniil MedvedevDaniil (0-0) – See H2H details