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<\/p>\n Match Report
\n Medvedev ends 882-day title drought in Almaty<\/p>\n
29-year-old defeats Moutet to win 21st tour-level crown<\/p>\n
October 19, 2025<\/p>\n
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ANDREY UDARTSEV\/Almaty Open<\/p>\n
Daniil Medvedev captures his first title since Rome in 2023 on Sunday in Almaty.
\n By Sam Jacot<\/p>\n
Daniil Medvedev<\/a>\u2019s title drought is over! Eight hundred and eighty-two days after triumphing in Rome, the 29-year-old returned to the winner\u2019s circle at the Almaty Open<\/a> on Sunday, when he beat Frenchman Corentin Moutet<\/a>, who was chasing his maiden tour-level title.<\/p>\n Since his victory in the Italian capital in 2023, the former World No. 1 Medvedev had lost finals at the US Open<\/a>, Beijing, Vienna, Australian Open<\/a>, Indian Wells and Halle. However, he ensured there would be no more final heartbreak in Almaty and is now just the second active male player to win 19 hard-court titles, joining Novak Djokovic<\/a> (71).<\/p>\n In an entertaining final at the ATP 250 event, Medvedev coped with Moutet\u2019s wizardry and moved forward effectively to back up his flat groundstrokes and close out points. With his hard-fought, two-hour, 29-minute 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 victory, Medvedev captured his 21st tour-level crown. All of Medvedev\u2019s titles have come at different events.<\/p>\n “It is great. I was not super happy with how I played in some moments of the match, but to win feels amazing. In the most important points I played good,” Medvedev said. “The last game was incredible and I am happy to win the title. It continues my funny story of 21 titles in 21 different cities.”<\/p>\n Medvedev also boosted his faint Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> hopes by winning in Almaty. The former year-end champion is up three spots to 12th in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, trailing eighth-placed Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> by 875 points. The Italian is in the final qualification spot.<\/p>\n Medvedev\u2019s title run in Almaty is his latest success under new coaches Thomas Johansson<\/a> and Rohan Goetzke, having reached semi-finals in Beijing and Shanghai. The 29-year-old started working with both following the US Open<\/a>, and he holds a 12-3 record since New York, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index.<\/p>\n Moutet was competing in his third tour-level final and was trying to become the ninth first-time winner in 2025. The Frenchman, who did not drop a set en route to the final, is up five spots to No. 36 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings and is set to rise to a career-high on Monday.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Medvedev ends 882-day title drought in Almaty 29-year-old defeats Moutet to win 21st tour-level crown October…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-225147","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\/225147","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=225147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760878634_836_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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