{"id":360884,"date":"2024-01-18T18:10:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T19:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=360884"},"modified":"2024-01-18T20:02:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T20:02:38","slug":"tough-tough-tough-five-setter-finishes-after-3-30am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=360884","title":{"rendered":"'Tough, tough tough': Five-setter finishes after 3.30am"},"content":{"rendered":"

Third-seeded Daniil Medvedev has rallied from two sets down to beat Emil Ruusuvuori 3-6, 6-7 (7-1), 6-4, 7-6 (7-1), 6-0 in a four-hour, 23-minute second-round Australian Open match that ended at 3.39am.<\/p>\n

"Tough, tough tough," Medvedev, a two-time Australian Open finalist, said of the late finish.<\/p>\n

It certainly was a tough night for the tournament's No.3 seeds.<\/p>\n

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Medvedev walked onto Rod Laver Arena at 11.07pm on Thursday after Elena Rybakina lost the longest women's grand slam tie-breaker ever 22-20 to Anna Blinkova<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And so day five of the Australian Open finished on a Friday, even with the extra Sunday added to the start of the tournament and the first round being split over three days.<\/p>\n

It was the latest finish so far this year, but not close to the tournament record.<\/p>\n

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Andy Murray finished off Thanasi Kokkinakis<\/a> just after 4am last year in a second-round match that lasted five hours, 45 minutes.<\/p>\n

And that was only good enough for second place.<\/p>\n

The latest-finishing match in grand slam history ended with Lleyton Hewitt beating Marcos Baghdatis at 4.34am in 2008.<\/p>\n

Medvedev will face No.27 Felix Auger-Aliassime, who beat Hugo Grenier 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Third-seeded Daniil Medvedev has rallied from two sets down to beat Emil Ruusuvuori 3-6, 6-7 (7-1), 6-4, 7-6 (7-1), 6-0 in a four-hour, 23-minute second-round […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":360887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360889,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360884\/revisions\/360889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/360887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}