The former No. 1 player in the PIF ATP Rankings earned a resounding 6-3, 6-3 victory Monday evening against World No. 3 Alexander Zverev<\/a> to reach the semi-finals of the China Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 29-year-old is into the 60th tour-level semi-final of his career and his first since June in Halle. He will take on #NextGenATP American Learner Tien<\/a>, who upset him at this year\u2019s Australian Open<\/a>, for a place in the final.<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s great, but I always want more,\u201d Medvedev said of the milestone he reached. \u201cIn the beginning of your career, numbers are important. When you achieve a lot, it’s more about just doing your best, and I haven’t been doing my best since some time, so I’m happy to be back in semis playing great, beating great opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Infosys ATP Stats, Medvedev saved all four break points he faced and won 86 per cent of his first-serve points to avoid facing too much pressure against the second-seeded Zverev.<\/p>\n \u201cI played great, I was controlling the game pretty well. I felt like I had all the chances,\u201d Medvedev said. \u201cHe had only, I think, one game on my serve where he put a lot of pressure on me and luckily I made a great game to save it. And other than that, I think I put a lot of pressure on him, played great and I’m happy to win.\u201d<\/p>\n Entering the match, Medvedev was just 1-2 against Top-10 opponents this season, with his lone victory coming against Zverev in Halle. He now has won five consecutive matches against Zverev and leads their Lexus ATP Head2Head series 14-7.<\/p>\n This was Medvedev\u2019s first Top-5 triumph on hard courts since beating Andrey Rublev<\/a> at the 2023 Nitto ATP Finals<\/a>. The No. 18 player in the PIF ATP Live Rankings had been 0-10 since.<\/p>\n \u201cI definitely played as I wanted to today, not missing much, aggressive when I need to, defensive when I need to, running great,\u201d Medvedev said. \u201cSo definitely improving and looking forward to try to improve even more.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beijing Medvedev upsets Zverev in Beijing to reach milestone, ‘but I always want more’ Former World No. 1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-178404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1759175226_44_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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