Daniil Medvedev prevails over Dominik Koepfer 3-6 6-3 6-2 7-62 in the 4th round in New York on Sunday. Medvedev will face off with Stan Wawrinka in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Koepfer commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Medvedev in the 2nd game (2-0). However, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Koepfer to win the set as the Russian succeeded in breaking back in the 3rd (1-2) game. Koepfer kept his focus to break the Russian in the 6th (4-2) game before winning the set (6-3).
2nd set.
Koepfer had a great start in this set after breaking Medvedev in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Medvedev found the way to come back to break Dominik in the 4th (2-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).
3rd set.
Daniil in this set was much more effective than Dominik and for that reason he won 6-2 after breaking Koepfer in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
Koepfer had no answers in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-2 to 6-2).
4th set.
Koepfer had a strong start of this set after breaking Medvedev in the 2nd game (2-0). Anyhow, the Russian refused to bow to find the way to come back to break the German in the 3rd (1-2) game before winning the set at the breaker at 2.
Statistics
At the end of the match, Medvedev scored 125 points vs. Koepfer’s 108 points.
Medvedev served exceptionally well to win 75% of the points (49/65) behind his first serve, and he won 56% points (29/52) on his second serve. Medvedev fired 15 aces and he committed 5 double faults. Daniil was pretty effective in converting 60% of the break points that he procured (6/10). On the other side, Koepfer had a tough time in converting his break points as he converted only 29% of his break points (4/14). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Medvedev and Koepfer is 1-0 for Daniil.
Highlights Daniil Medvedev vs. Dominik Koepfer U.S. Open – New York
Medvedev’s Interview
Next Match: Daniil Medvedev vs. Stan Wawrinka – stats
Medvedev will come up against Wawrinka in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Daniil Medvedev and Stan Wawrinka play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Medvedev (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Medvedev won 6-4 3-6 6-4 6-1 in the 1st round in Wimbledon back in 2017.
Tennis Scores at the Us Open
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (3-6 6-3 6-2 7-62) – See score progression
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (7-5 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Roger FedererFederer – David GoffinGoffin (6-2 6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Novak DjokovicDjokovic (6-4 7-5 2-1 ret.) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Roger FedererFederer – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (7-0) – See H2H details
- Stan WawrinkaWawrinka – Daniil MedvedevMedvedev (0-1) – See H2H details
- Gael MonfilsMonfils – Pablo AndujarAndujar (3-0) – See H2H details
- Marin CilicCilic – Rafael NadalNadal (2-6) – See H2H details
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (1-1) – See H2H details
- Andrey RublevRublev – Matteo BerrettiniBerrettini (1-1) – See H2H details
