The Frenchman lost to Medvedev in the Almaty final on Sunday but ensured he would not suffer further pain against the 29-year-old just four days later at the ATP 500 in Austria. Playing with his trademark variety, Moutet edged a tight first set and then recovered from failing to serve out the match at 5-3, eventually advancing 7-6(3), 6-4.<\/p>\n
“He is such a great player and I knew it would be intense,” Moutet said. “It was hard to come from Almaty to here. It was a long travel, jet lag and we did a big match in the final, so it was hard to recover. I am more than happy with my performance. I played very aggressively today. It is different conditions, but it is always a big, big challenge to play against Daniil.”<\/p>\n
Medvedev won his first title in more than two years in Almaty. He climbed to 12th in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin following his run but his latest defeat means he faces an uphill battle to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals<\/a>. The 2020 year-end champion is 925 points behind eighth-placed Lorenzo Musetti<\/a>, who is in action in Vienna this week. Medvedev will next head to the ATP Masters 1000 event in Paris.<\/p>\n Moutet, level at 2-2 in his Lexus ATP Head2Head series with Medvedev, will next play Musetti in his fifth tour-level quarter-final of the season. Musetti, aiming to make his debut in Turin, beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry<\/a> 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n Alexander Zverev<\/a> followed Moutet and Medvedev onto court and quickly recorded his 50th tour-level win of the season. The German overcame Italian qualifier Matteo Arnaldi<\/a> 6-4, 6-4 in 87 minutes to reach the quarter-finals in Vienna for the fifth time. He has never fallen before the last-eight stage at the indoor event.<\/p>\n Zverev, who won the title at the ATP 500 in 2021, has now advanced to 12 quarter-finals in 2025, with only Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> (13) reaching more. The 28-year-old is fourth in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin and on the verge of qualifying for the Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> for the eighth time. Zverev, a two-time champion at the year-end event, next plays Tallon Griekspoor<\/a> in Vienna.<\/p>\n Players to earn 50 wins in 2025<\/p>\n In the first match of the day, Matteo Berrettini<\/a> clawed past Cameron Norrie<\/a> 7-6(6), 6-7(9), 6-4 to advance to the last eight in Vienna for the fourth time. The Italian plays third seed Alex de Minaur<\/a> in the quarter-finals. Alexander Bublik<\/a> also booked his spot in the last eight, beating Francisco Cerundolo<\/a> 6-4, 6-2. Bublik, who saved all six break points he faced against Cerundolo, according to Infosys ATP Stats, has won four ATP Tour titles in 2025.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Moutet dents Medvedev’s Turin aims with revenge win in Vienna, Zverev earns 50th win of year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-236675","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\/236675","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=236675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761278659_137_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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