Daniil Medvedev beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets to reach the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Masters on Wednesday, setting up a meeting with Tommy Paul. “I put a lot of pressure on him in the first set. “Second set, different story. A very tight one.
Medvedev did not face a single break point in defeating the Greek 6-4, 7-5. I’m happy that I managed to get some good returns and find a good rhythm,” the 30-year-old said.
“I felt like I was playing very well today,” said Medvedev, the fifth seed.
Daniil Medvedev beat Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets to reach the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Masters on Wednesday, setting up a meeting with Tommy Paul.
“It seemed to me that he maybe twisted his knee. The Russian broke his opponent’s serve to take a 6-5 lead in the second set and closed out the match in one hour and 24 minutes. The players were meeting in the singles draw for the 16th time on Tour, with sixth-ranked Medvedev improving his head-to-head record against Tsitsipas to 11-5.
“I know sometimes it’s hard to back up a big win,” Paul said of the 39th-ranked Belgian, who upset second seed Carlos Alcaraz in the previous round. Though Paul said Bergs “raised his level” in the second set, cutting a 0-4 deficit to trail by just one game, it was the American who prevailed in the end. Ruud, ranked 24th in the world, said his opponent’s trouble appeared to begin in the fourth game of the opening set. It looked like he kind of stumbled a bit with a wrong step,” Ruud told reporters. “From that moment it seemed like he was in a lot of pain,” he said.
