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<\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n\u201cFrances is a very tough opponent,\u201d Medvedev said. \u201cWas a top-10 player and can play good any moment. Any ranking he has, he can make a tough fight to a top player.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I\u2019m happy with the way I served. I think I put a lot of pressure on my serve on him, and then I always put some returns in play. So it\u2019s a tiny bit of extra pressure on his serve when I\u2019m serving that well. I managed to use it. Played great, happy, and looking forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
29-year-old Medvedev will face either Reilly Opelka or Kamil Majchrzak in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
The former US Open champion has dropped just ten games through two rounds. He defeated Marton Fucsovics, 6-2, 6-3 in his first match.<\/p>\n
Much has been made of Medvedev\u2019s difficult 2025 season, but the Russian himself is eager to put those memories behind him.<\/p>\n
\u201cPhysically I was struggling a bit,\u201d he said of his 2025 campaign, which saw him go 41-23 and drop as low as No.18 in the ATP rankings. \u201cFor example, even in the end of the year where I was playing great tennis, physically I could have been better, and I think some matches cost me, because also I started playing more tournaments because I needed to chase up the rankings and stuff like this so I got a bit tired.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made a good preseason, good physical work. I\u2019m feeling very fresh. And the two matches I played, okay, they were just a bit over one hour, so of course the real test is when it comes to these three-hour matches or more. But I\u2019m happy with the way I feel on the court, with the way I move, and that\u2019s the most important.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other action, defending champion Jiri Lehecka was forced to retire early in the second set against Sebastian Korda due to an ankle injury (6-3 1-2 ret.).<\/p>\n
Korda will next face Alex Michelsen, who took out Learner Tien, 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev is off to a proper fast start in 2026. The former world No.1 skated past Frances…\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":["post-397333","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\/397333","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=397333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397333\/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=397333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}