El in Russian Daniil Medvedev ended the aspirations of the Canadian Felix Auger Aliassime, defending championto reach the semifinal of the rotterdam tournament where he will face the bulgarian Grigor Dimitrovwho saved two match points against the Australian Alex de Minaur to survive the event.
Medvedev keeps Aliassime at bay who He has won the five times they have met. On this occasion, in the Netherlands, Medvedev, the eleventh player in the world, won 6-2, 6-4 in one hour and twenty-three minutes.
Rotterdam was the turning point for Auger-Aliassime. Toni Nadal’s pupil debuted his record at this event a year ago. With the victory, Medvedev advanced to the semifinals in Rotterdam for the second time, which he also reached in 2019.. His next opponent in the Netherlands will be Grigor Dimitrov, after the Bulgarian saved two match points before bringing down of Alex de Minaur 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(6) in a dramatic quarterfinal match. Both Dimitrov and Medvedev aspire to reach the first final in 2023 and if the Russian wins he would return to the ‘top 10’ of the world ranking.
On the other side of the table, the Italian Jannik Sinner will play the Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka and then the Dutch Gijs Brower and Tallon Griekspoor will face each other.
