{"id":20621,"date":"2024-01-19T08:52:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T05:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/20621\/medvedev-wins-australian-open-match\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T08:52:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T05:52:43","slug":"medvedev-wins-australian-open-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=20621","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev wins Australian Open match in 3rd-latest Slam finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medvedev wins Australian Open match in 3rd-latest Slam finish\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MELBOURNE, Australia &#8211; If he hadn&#39;t been on the court competing, Daniil Medvedev doubted anything would have kept him at Rod Laver Arena until almost 4 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Third-seeded Medvedev lost the first two sets of his Australian Open second-round match against 53rd-ranked Emil Ruusuvuori before coming back to win 3-6, 6-7 (1), 6-4, 7-6 (1), 6-0 in 4 hours and 23 minutes at the last end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>They traveled to Rod Laver Arena to <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/start\/\"   title=\"start\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">start<\/a> hitting at 11:07 p.m. AEDT on Thursday after women&#39;s number 3 Elena Rybakina lost the longest ever tiebreaker in a women&#39;s Grand Slam event, 22 -20 against Anna Blinkova.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The match ended at 3:39 a.m. Friday, and Medvedev was still there signing autographs as the clock ticked toward 4 o&#39;clock.<\/p>\n<p>The long tiebreaker and uncertainty over the start time, he said, meant his fueling and warm-up routines were unbalanced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I entered the court, I was already a little exhausted,\u201d Medvedev, a two-time Australian Open finalist, told fans still scattered around the arena long after the last trams had finished their journey to the fifth day.<\/p>\n<p>This won&#39;t be considered a classic, but it still had plenty of drama.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev needed a medical timeout due to blisters on his right foot after the second set, and he sent his racket onto the court after missing a chance to break Ruusuvuori&#39;s serve late in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Then he struggled to tie the laces of his right shoe before the deciding fifth set.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the clock, he was frank with the people who had been there until a few hours before sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly guys, I wouldn\u2019t be there,\u201d Medvedev said in an on-field interview.  &#8220;Thank you for staying. If I was a tennis fan and I came, at 1 a.m. I&#39;d be like, &#39;OK, let&#39;s go home. We&#39;ll watch the end of the match on TV.&#39; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>This was the last result of this year, but it is not close to the tournament record.  Andy Murray defeated Thanasi Kokkinakis at 4:05 last year in a second-round match that lasted 5 hours and 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>And that was just good enough for second place on the all-time list.  The last match in Grand Slam history ended with Lleyton Hewitt&#39;s victory over Marcos Baghdatis at 4:34 a.m. at the 2008 Australian Open.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Daniil Medvedev had to work night shifts to reach the third round of the Australian Open for the sixth year in a row. <cite>EPA\/James Ross<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>After complaints from players last year, Australian Open organizers decided to extend the tournament by adding a 15th day and starting on a Sunday for the first time.  The first round took place over three days and no match lasted past 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>But the first day of the second round was a different story, with two men&#39;s first matches ending in a decisive tiebreaker after five sets and the first match of first Iga Swiatek against Danielle Collins lasting almost 3 hours and a quarter.<\/p>\n<p>So the fifth day of the Australian Open ended on a Friday, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev said he would have to warm up, undergo physiotherapy and try to fall asleep at 6:30 a.m. and wake up shortly after noon to start preparing for his third-round match against F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n<p>Ruusuvurori, a 24-year-old Finn who was aiming for the third round at a major tournament for the first time, started well.<\/p>\n<p>He broke the 2021 US Open champion&#39;s serve in the second match and won the first set in 42 minutes.  It took almost twice as long to <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> the second set in a tiebreaker and take a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pull-quote\"><p>&#8220;If I was a tennis fan and I came, at 1 a.m., I&#39;d be like, &#39;OK, let&#39;s go home. We&#39;ll watch the end of the match on TV.&#39;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cite><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-container headshot\"><\/div>\n<p>Daniil Medvedev, on his late second round match at the Australian Open<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After a medical timeout, Medvedev began his return.  He broke to take a 2-1 lead and, after an exchange of breaks, won the third set in 49 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>He also broke to open the fourth.  But Ruusuvurori broke back, converting with a leap above, to return to serve, and Medvedev shouted to his support team in the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/stands\/\"   title=\"stands\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">stands<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ruusuvurori maintained a 5-4 lead with a few forehands, and Medvedev threw his racket across the court before heading to the chairs for the changeover.  This earned him a warning from the chair umpire.<\/p>\n<p>Tied in the next game, Ruusuvuori was two points from victory at 2:56 a.m.  But he launched into a return of serve and missed a forehand wide down the line, then sent a forehand long.<\/p>\n<p>After all that, the end came relatively quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev took a 4-0 lead in the tiebreaker, seizing momentum.<\/p>\n<p>After a break of almost eight minutes between the fourth and fifth sets, Medvedev&#39;s experience showed and Ruusuvuori&#39;s legs gave way.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-minute deciding set was only extended by Ruusuvuori taking a medical timeout to treat his sore right shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only two matches I enjoyed after two sets were on this court,\u201d Medvedev said.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the match, he was 4-10 in five sets, including a loss to Rafael Nadal in the 2022 final after winning the first two sets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis one,\u201d he said, \u201cis definitely going to stay in my memory.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medvedev wins Australian Open match in 3rd-latest Slam finish\u060c MELBOURNE, Australia &#8211; If he hadn&#39;t been on the court competing, Daniil Medvedev doubted anything would have kept him at Rod Laver Arena until almost 4 a.m. Third-seeded Medvedev lost the first two sets of his Australian Open second-round match against 53rd-ranked Emil Ruusuvuori before coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9409,1005,4111,1203,9408,64,9410,1536],"class_list":["post-20621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-3rdlatest","tag-australian","tag-finish","tag-match","tag-medvedev","tag-open","tag-slam","tag-wins"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20623,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20621\/revisions\/20623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}