We were afraid for Daniil Medvedev, when he led 5-1, 40-15 in the first set against Ilya Ivashka, before dropping seriously to the point of being raised to 5-5. Fortunately for the world n ° 2, the Belarusian immediately gave up his service on four unforced errors. A windfall immediately seized by the Russian to seize the first round. The alert had passed for Medvedev, who was no doubt to remember his mishap at Indian Wells, eliminated by Grigor Dimitrov when he was leading 6-4, 4-1.
He will find in the round of 16 the American Sebastian Korda, who lost only seven points in the service to eliminate Marin Cilic, who had just won the title in Saint Petersburg.
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