The American won with a consistent performance Tommy Paul the defending champion in the round of 16 of the ATP 1000 event in Rome Daniil Medvedev smoothly in two sentences.
by Dietmar Kaspar
last edited: May 14, 2024, 8:17 p.m
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Tommy Paul surprisingly clearly dethroned defending champion Daniil Medvedev in Rome.
Before today’s round of 16 at the ATP Masters tournament in Tom, the world number 2 was able to. Daniil Medvedev has an impeccable record against the American Tommy Paul with three wins from the three previous encounters.
At the beginning of the game, both players were looking for their rhythm with their own serves and each had to give up their first service game. Afterwards, 26-year-old Paul found what he was looking for much more quickly and was much more successful with his tactic of acting as close to the baseline as possible. From the score of 1:1 in the first round, he took control of the set and won it without losing any further game.
In the second act, the momentum changed several times at the beginning. After a quick 2-0 lead, the somewhat sluggish Medvedev had to give up the next four games. After that, the Russian found his way into the game a little better, but Paul still served out the 6:1, 6:4 win after 73 minutes without allowing another break chance.
In the on-cour interview, the world number 16 commented: “I am of course very happy about the victory. I started a little slow in both sets, but then I played really good tennis in each case.”
Hurkacz wrestles Baez down
In the quarterfinals, Paul, who is ranked No. 14, faces Hubert Hurkacz, seeded 7th, who in a thriller after 2:40 hours beats the tournament’s No. 17, Sebastian Baez from Argentina, 5:7, 7: 6 (4), 6:4.
Tsitsipas introduces De Minaur
Stefanos Tsitsipas, seeded at number 6, showed a dominant performance from the start in his round of 16 game against Australian Alex de Minaur, who was ranked 9th. After a quick 3-0 lead, the Greek only gave up one game in the first half. In the second set, the 25-year-old Tsitsipas also set the course for victory from a score of 1:1 after winning four games in a row. After exactly one hour, the world number 8 fixed. the 6:1, 6:2 success and will meet in the round of the last eight against the number 21 seeded Chilean Nicolas Jarry, who was able to assert himself with 7:5, 6:3 against the qualifier Alexandre Muller from France. For Tsitsipas it was the eleventh success against De Minaur in the twelfth clash.
Here is the individual tableau from Rome
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