US Open finalist Daniil Medvedev does not stop winning, as well as in the Russian Federation. He won the score against Yegor Gerasimov - 7: 5, 7: 5, and also climbed out to the finals of St. Petersburg Open!
After all, for a long time already, Russian tennis fans did not feel so many positive impressions from the performances of Russian tennis players. Daniil Medvedev with ease seemed to set their creation on stream even in the summer season, and also in the fall does not think to stop. The 23rd player made it to the finals at the 5th tournament out of 5, in which he took part since the end of July. He took the title at Masters ”, and also fought for the main win in the Grand Slam, but the St. Petersburg final itself with a special goal from Medvedev is special. due to the fact that at home.
It was not enough for him to play one after another matches with compatriots Yevgeny Donskoy, as well as Andrei Rublev, thus a man “from a not so distant locality” came to compete in the semifinal, just as Medvedev himself expressed himself, as well as a wonderful friend. Simple Belarusian Egor Gerasimov performs the best as long as the tournament in his own career. On the eve of his victory, he won against US Open semifinalist Matteo Berrettini, and also secured his first career penetration in the first hundred. “Yegor is very good-natured, a cool kid,” Daniel personally outlined the competitor. - We are allowed to say that we are friends, and I also wondered why he didn’t stand in the top fifty list in any way?
" Decent and equal game "
The game on Saturday Gerasimov actually demonstrated a decent game. Unusually, the one and the other tennis player finished the game with almost equal serve statistics (according to 65% of hits of the 1st, 76, as well as 77 (in the profit of Belarus))% of points defeated in the original ball, 6 aces. Only Medvedev made even five doubles, without exception, in the second set, he was in a hurry, he wanted to win quickly.
On the eve of the Russian citizen expressed fears that the game of the football Zenith against Rubin, which arose according to the neighborhood in the movement of his semifinal fight, would distract the Petrograd sports fans, but this existed in vain: the stands of Sibur-Arena were approximately full. Also hopelessly rooting for the US Open finalist. In this kind of situation, Medvedev, of course, absolutely did not want to lose.
At the beginning of the 1st set, keeping Medvedev’s own supply existed, maybe even more problematic than Gerasimov’s. However, in the end, the Belarusian made a lot of mistakes, but a Russian citizen showed himself much better. Probably also here, as well as on the threshold, the accumulated confidence saved. Break in the 11th game undoubtedly helped Daniel finish the game for his own benefit.
In half of the 2nd set, the tennis players exchanged breaks, but the first seeded, so to speak, when he blew the pitch, impudently threw a racket on the court. Gerasimov hardly kept his own game in order to achieve a 5-4 result, but the next 3, and together with them the set, as well as the game, remained with the Russian resident. The competitors very warmly thanked each other at the net, but then Medvedev pulled off the applause of the audience.