Serbian Hamad Medjedovic stunned world number seven Alex de Minaur with a 6-3, 6-4 victory in the Barcelona Open round of 16 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Medjedovic<\/a>, ranked 88th in the world, broke for a 5-3 lead in the first set which he served out to love.<\/p>\n De Minaur<\/a> broke and consolidated for a 3-0 advantage in the second set but the 22-year-old qualifier battled his way back, winning the last five games to secure two breaks and triumph.<\/p>\n The Australian committed five double faults on a difficult afternoon and converted only one of nine break points.<\/p>\n The 2023 Next Gen Finals champion will next face Nuno Borges<\/a> after the Portuguese defeated Tomas Martin Etcheverry<\/a> 6-3, 7-6 (7\/4) to progress to the last eight.<\/p>\n Later Wednesday, seventh seed Cameron Norrie<\/a> faces Ethan Quinn<\/a> and and rising Spanish star Rafael Jodar<\/a> takes on Camilo Ugo Carabelli<\/a>.<\/p>\n On Thursday, world number two Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> is scheduled to take on Tomas Machac<\/a> in another round of 16 clash, but the Spaniard skipped training on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Alcaraz, who lost the Monte Carlo Masters final to new world number one Jannik Sinner<\/a> on Sunday, defeated Otto Virtanen<\/a> on Tuesday in the first round.<\/p>\n During that match, the top seed was treated for a problem with his wrist and forearm, which he said he hoped would not become a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serbian Hamad Medjedovic stunned world number seven Alex de Minaur with a 6-3, 6-4 victory in the Barcelona…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-534800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}