“I felt like I was playing very well today,” said Medvedev, the fifth seed.<\/p>\n
“I put a lot of pressure on him in the first set.<\/p>\n
“Second set different story. Very tight one. I’m happy that I managed… to get some good returns, get some good rhythm,” the 30-year-old said.<\/p>\n
The Russian broke his opponent’s serve to go up 6-5 in the second set and closed things out in one hour and 24 minutes.<\/p>\n
The players were meeting in the singles draw for the 16th time on Tour, with 6th-ranked Medvedev improving his head-to-head record to 11 wins.<\/p>\n
Medvedev won the Shanghai tournament in 2019.<\/p>\n
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His next opponent, Paul<\/a>, meanwhile, beat Zizou Bergs<\/a> 7-6(5), 6-4<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I know sometimes it’s hard to back up a big win,” Paul said of the 39th-ranked Belgian, who upset second-seeded Carlos Alcaraz in the previous round.<\/p>\n Though Paul said Bergs “raised his level” in the second set, narrowing a 0-4 deficit to trail by just one game, it was the American who triumphed in the end.<\/p>\n Jodar sets up Ruud meeting<\/p>\n Rising Spanish star Rafael Jodar<\/a> earlier beat Botic van de Zandschulp<\/a> 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-2<\/a> to secure his quarter-final spot.<\/p>\n It was not without incident, though, with Jodar handed a code violation in the second set for swearing at a ball boy in Spanish when asking for a towel.<\/p>\n Jodar will play Casper Ruud<\/a> in the quarter-finals. The Norwegian advanced when fourth-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> retired injured when down 2-5 in the first set<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ruud, ranked 24th in the world, said his opponent’s trouble appeared to start in the fourth game of the first set.<\/p>\n “It seemed to me that he maybe twisted his knee… it looked like he kind of stumbled a bit with a wrong step,” Ruud told reporters.<\/p>\n “From that moment it seemed like he was in a lot of pain,” he said.<\/p>\n Auger-Aliassime needed a medical timeout after the fifth game, starting the next game down 1-4 with white strapping around his left knee.<\/p>\n