{"id":401838,"date":"2026-01-11T22:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/401838\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:26:13","slug":"daniil-medvedev-warms-up-for-australian-open-with-trophy-win-in-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/401838\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev warms up for Australian Open with trophy win in Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Three-time Australian Open runner-up Daniil Medvedev warmed up for an assault on this year&#8217;s opening Grand Slam in perfect fashion by winning the Brisbane International final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian world number 13 was too strong for American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/nakashima-brandon\/ETGnbrpH\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Nakashima<\/a> and ran out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/match\/tennis\/medvedev-d-O8qG0Nhb\/nakashima-b-ETGnbrpH\/?mid=WY9ZPdYI\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-2, 7-6(1)<\/a> winner in 96 minutes on Pat Rafter Arena for his 22nd ATP Tour title.<\/p>\n<p>Medevdev broke a shell-shocked Nakashima twice in the first set and looked on course for a quick victory.<\/p>\n<p>Nakashima rallied in the second to force a tiebreak, but the towering Russian raced to a 5-0 lead in the breaker, and the match was as good as over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started pretty strong but then Brandon found his way back, saved some match points then almost got it to a third set,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/medvedev-daniil\/O8qG0Nhb\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Medvedev<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Open begins in Melbourne next Sunday, January 18th.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a great start to the year,&#8221; said Medvedev, who made the final in Brisbane in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I said then that I would try and come back and win it. I came back seven or eight years later and I&#8217;m happy to hold the trophy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-time Australian Open runner-up Daniil Medvedev warmed up for an assault on this year&#8217;s opening Grand Slam in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-401838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}