{"id":222756,"date":"2025-10-18T12:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222756\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:55:09","slug":"medvedev-reaches-40th-career-final-in-almaty-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/222756\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev Reaches 40th Career Final in Almaty \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/pages\/tennis-player\/daniil-medvedev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Daniil Medvedev<\/a> rallied past Aussie qualifier James Duckworth to reach the Almaty Open final, 6-7(8), 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian ranks second among active finals with 40, behind only Novak Djokovic\u2019s 143.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>He couldn\u2019t convert two set points in the opening set tiebreak, but flipped the script in sets two and three with some crisp and efficient tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev got his first break in the sixth game of the second set, then broke in the first and seventh games of the third set to pull away from the 33-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the level was incredible today, from both me and my opponent,\u201d said the 29-year-old. \u201cIn the tiebreak I could have played better in some moments, but it happens. Throughout the match I think there were some amazing points from both of us, so I\u2019m really happy with my performance and I\u2019m looking forward to tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former world No.1 will face either Alex Michelsen or Corentin Moutet in the final as he bids for his 21st ATP title, and first since the spring of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev rallied past Aussie qualifier James Duckworth to reach the Almaty Open final, 6-7(8), 6-3, 6-2 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-222756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222756","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=222756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}