{"id":431979,"date":"2026-01-23T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431979\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:23:08","slug":"australian-open-2026-daniil-medvedev-battles-back-from-two-sets-down-to-beat-fabian-marozsan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431979\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026: Daniil Medvedev battles back from two sets down to beat Fabian Marozsan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is fitting that Daniil Medvedev has become the first player at this year&#8217;s Australian Open to win a match from two sets down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Russian&#8217;s run to the 2024 final included four matches that went to five sets and a total play time of 24 hours and 17 minutes &#8211; the longest time on court at a major in the Open era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c99k33kyxz3o\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during his dreadful run<\/a> at the Slams last year, Medvedev came back from two sets down in three matches, only to lose them in the deciding set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And after beating Hungary&#8217;s Fabian Marozsan 6-7 (5-7) 4-6 7-5 6-0 6-3 to reach the fourth round on Friday, Medvedev admitted to some nerves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Last year, all my Grand Slam matches when I was 2-0 down, I made it to 2-2 and a break up, and then I lost,&#8221; the 11th seed said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Here, I had a break [in the fifth] and he broke me back and I was like &#8216;not again&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But I managed to stay strong and I&#8217;m happy about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Medvedev has now won seven of the 11 five-setters he has played at the Australian Open and has a 10-13 win-loss record in deciding sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is fitting that Daniil Medvedev has become the first player at this year&#8217;s Australian Open to win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-431979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431979","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=431979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}