{"id":399590,"date":"2024-06-03T15:14:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T15:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=399590"},"modified":"2024-06-03T16:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T16:06:22","slug":"de-minaur-upsets-medvedev-to-reach-quarters-in-20-year-aussie-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=399590","title":{"rendered":"De Minaur upsets Medvedev to reach quarters in 20-year Aussie first"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia's Alex de Minaur<\/a> has run Daniil Medvedev off the court in an upset win at Roland-Garros<\/a> to qualify for his second grand slam<\/a> quarter-final.<\/p>\n

The Australian appeared to yell out "I love the clay" after a Medvedev double fault sealed the match 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-3 \u2013 a surprising declaration for a man who minutes later admitted it hadn't been his favourite surface in the past.<\/p>\n

The 11th seed will now play the winner of Alex Zverev and Holger Rune.<\/p>\n

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It's his best performance in Paris by a distance, best grand slam result since his 2020 US Open quarter-final loss to Dominic Thiem and the best Australian performance at Roland-Garros since Lleyton Hewitt 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

An ecstatic de Minaur delighted local fans by conducting the on-court post-match interview in French.<\/p>\n

"It was an amazing atmosphere for me," he said.<\/p>\n

"I was never expecting to be in the quarter-final in Roland-Garros because me, on clay, I never played very well in past years."<\/p>\n

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The 25-year-old, who also speaks Spanish, said he was "very very happy" with the win.<\/p>\n

"Against Daniil, it's always a very tactical game," he said.<\/p>\n

"Because the two of us, we really defend very well, so we have to try to change a little bit the pace on the ball."<\/p>\n

Watch Roland-Garros 2024 live and exclusively free on Nine and<\/strong><\/em> 9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. Plus four courts in 4K UHD on<\/strong><\/em> Stan Sport<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, the home of grand slam tennis.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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De Minaur dropped the opening set and showed some brief signs of frustration \u2013 including a spat with the chair umpire \u2013 but managed to regain his composure heading into the second.<\/p>\n

From there, the Aussie took complete control and won six games in a row to close out the set as Medvedev's poor serving came back to haunt him.<\/p>\n

The third set was more of the same as Medvedev \u2013 who received medical treatment for a foot injury in the second \u2013 looked completely uncomfortable.<\/p>\n

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De Minaur broke the Russian in the opening game of the fourth to keep the momentum going but Medevedev broke back immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it was the briefest of fightbacks. The final set went on serve until the Australian served out the eighth game to love to go up 5-3.<\/p>\n

He then capitalised on both an unlucky net cord from Medvedev and the fifth seed's final-point double fault to close out the match in two hours and 49 minutes.<\/p>\n

– Reported with Anna Pavlou<\/em>\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia's Alex de Minaur has run Daniil Medvedev off the court in an upset win at Roland-Garros to qualify for his second grand slam quarter-final. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":399593,"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\/399590"}],"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=399590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399599,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399590\/revisions\/399599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/399593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}