{"id":21518,"date":"2024-01-24T11:17:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T08:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/21518\/daniil-medvedev-takes-out-hubert\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T11:17:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T08:17:49","slug":"daniil-medvedev-takes-out-hubert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=21518","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev takes out Hubert Hurkacz, back in Australian Open semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniil Medvedev takes out Hubert Hurkacz, back in Australian Open semifinals\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Daniil Medvedev defeated ninth-seeded Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 on Wednesday to reach the semifinals of the Open d Australia for the third time in four years.<\/p>\n<p>During a grueling four-hour match that featured numerous exchanges of more than 20 shots, Medvedev held off a comeback attempt from Hurkacz to advance.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev will meet either Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz or Olympic gold medalist Alexander Zverev, who were playing later on Wednesday, for a place in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev, who won the 2021 US Open and is a two-time finalist in Australia, looked on course for an easier victory when leading 4-2 in the fourth set, but Hurkacz raised his game to take the decision.  .<\/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>Medvedev took the decisive break in the seventh game of the fifth and held on for the victory, capped by a drop shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#39;m so destroyed right now,\u201d Medvedev said, his hands clasped behind his head, during his on-court interview.  \u201cI already felt very strong physically during the opening set.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No. 3 Medvedev had a tough run in Melbourne, including a nearly 4 1\/2-hour, five-set second-round match that ended around 4 a.m. and when he admitted he thought already on the return flight.  .<\/p>\n<p>The journey back came to mind against Hurkacz, when he decided to abandon the game plan and do everything he could to turn the situation around.<\/p>\n<p>This meant reverting to a risky serve-and-volley strategy at certain points and standing near the baseline to receive serves \u2013 much closer than he usually does due to his usual deep positioning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniil Medvedev takes out Hubert Hurkacz, back in Australian Open semifinals\u060c MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Daniil Medvedev defeated ninth-seeded Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 on Wednesday to reach the semifinals of the Open d Australia for the third time in four years. During a grueling four-hour match that featured numerous exchanges of more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1005,9666,1578,1579,9408,64,801,221],"class_list":["post-21518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-australian","tag-daniil","tag-hubert","tag-hurkacz","tag-medvedev","tag-open","tag-semifinals","tag-takes"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21518","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=21518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21520,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21518\/revisions\/21520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}