{"id":17818,"date":"2025-07-24T05:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17818\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:52:08","slug":"tennis-atp-citi-open-2025-medvedev-upends-opelka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/17818\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis, ATP \u2013 Citi Open 2025: Medvedev upends Opelka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian Daniil Medvedev, the No 8 seed, advanced to the last 16 of the Citi Open by defeating American Reilly Opelka 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 at the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

Beaten by the American in the quarter-finals of the Lib\u00e9ma Open last June, Daniil Medvedev got his revenge this Wednesday in Washington. The Russian gave himself a real scare, losing the first set and conceding a break point at 3-6, 3-3.<\/p>\n

But the world\u2019s 14th-ranked player finally managed to stave off the danger before finding the opening on his opponent\u2019s serve to clinch a third set. Efficient on his return of serve from a very remote position on the court, the Russian quickly killed off the suspense to cruise to victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough to play against Reilly, you need to have a good feel on his serve,\u201d said Medvedev. \u201cYou have to guess a little bit, but you don\u2019t want to overguess it, like I did in \u2018s-Hertogenbosch. He got in my head and made 24 aces\u2026 Today was better and I managed to get more looks on his serve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Medvedev, ranked No 14, will play Chinese qualifier Yibing Wu next.<\/p>\n

Opelka, ranked No 74, won against qualifier Murphy Cassone (7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 6-3) in the previous round of the Washington D.C. tournament.<\/p>\n

Washington ATP 500, other second-round results (William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, hard, USD 2.396.115, most recent results first):<\/p>\n

Aleksandar Kovacevic vs. Frances Tiafoe<\/p>\n


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Flavio Cobolli vs. Yoshihito Nishioka<\/p>\n

Learner Tien vs. Andrey Rublev<\/p>\n

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina vs. Jaume Munar<\/p>\n

Taylor Fritz vs. Aleksandar Vukic<\/p>\n

Alex De Minaur vs. Yunchaokete Bu: wednesday<\/p>\n

Matteo Arnaldi vs. Lorenzo Sonego: wednesday<\/p>\n

Jiri Lehecka (11) beat Zachary Svajda (Q): 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3<\/p>\n

Yibing Wu beat Alexei Popyrin (10): 7-5, 5-7, 6-3<\/p>\n

Corentin Moutet (LL) beat Alexandre Muller: 6-0, 6-1<\/p>\n

Daniel Evans (WC) beat Alex Michelsen (13): 6-4, 6-4<\/p>\n

Ben Shelton (4) beat Mackenzie McDonald (WC): 6-3, 6-4<\/p>\n

Gabriel Diallo (15) beat Fabian Marozsan: 6-3, 6-4<\/p>\n

Cameron Norrie beat Lorenzo Musetti (2): 3-6, 6-2, 6-3<\/p>\n

Brandon Nakashima (14) beat Ethan Quinn (WC): 6-3, 6-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian Daniil Medvedev, the No 8 seed, advanced to the last 16 of the Citi Open by defeating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-17818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}