Danil Medvedev beats Alexander Zverev 6-2 7-6 (7-3) to clinch his third consecutive win at this year’s Internazionali BNL Internazionali d’Italia in Rome.
Medvedev has improved his lead to 9-6 in his 15 head-to-head matches against Zverev. The Russian player beat his German opponent in his previous two head-to-head matches in Indian Wells and Monte-Carlo.
Medvedev converted three of nine break points to score his Tour-leading 36th win of the season.
Medvedev earned an early break in the first game of the opening set. The Russian player broke serve in the seventh game and served out the first set 6-2.
Both players traded breaks in the seventh and eighth games of the second set and had multiple set points. Zverev was not able to convert his set point in the 10thgame and the second set was decided by a tie-break. Medvedev earned his first mini-break to take a 3-1 lead. Zverev pulled back on serve to draw level to 3-3. Medvedev won the final four points to win the tie-break 7-3. “He started to play a little bit better for sure. We had some some long games, and I should have played better on this game at 4-3. I should have done better from 40-0. I made a few easy errors, but that’s tennis, and I knew that I had to continue. It was not an easy moment, later I had a set point to save. I am happy with my leve throughout the whole match, except this game and I am really looking forward to the next match”, said Medvedev.
Medvedev set up a quarter final match against Yannick Hanfmann, who beat Andrey Rublev 6-2 7-6 (7-3).
