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ATP Miami 24: 19. ćwierćfinał M-1000, 350. wygrany mecz w karierze.

[3] Daniił Miedwiediew d. Dominik Koepfer 76(5) 60

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ATP Miami 24: 14. półfinał M-1000.

[3] Daniil Medvedev d. [22] Nicolas Jarry 62 76(7)

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14-5 w QFs M-1000. Bardzo przyzwoicie.

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Medvedev sets Sinner SF after denying late Jarry charge in Miami

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Australian Open final rematch set for Miami
March 28, 2024

Daniil Medvedev improves to 18-3 on the season and moves to within two wins of successfully defending a title for the first time in his career.
By ATP Staff
Daniil Medvedev took a page out of Novak Djokovic’s playbook Wednesday night when he went into lockdown mode early before later scrambling to turn back a late charge by Chilean Nicolas Jarry en route to a 6-2, 7-6(7) win at the Miami Open presented by Itau.

The World No. 4 in the PIF ATP Rankings has set an Australian Open final rematch with Jannik Sinner in Friday’s semi-finals as he looks to reach his third final in his past four outings.

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“The first set I thought I was playing a good level, not doing anything extra, just enough to win,” Medvedev said. “Then he started to play much better and it was tough rallies, tough points. He served better and it was just a matter of a few points in the tie-break.”

“I was expecting he would get a lot of support from the Chileans and it was a good atmosphere.”

Medvedev made just three unforced errors to Jarry’s 14 in the first set alone before Jarry worked his way back into the match and came within two points of stealing the second set in a rollercoaster tie-break. But Medvedev held his nerve to extend his winning streak at Hard Rock Stadium to nine matches as he moved to within two wins of successfully defending a title for the first time in his career.


Improving to 18-3 on the season, 2024 Australian Open finalist Medvedev dictated with a standout night on serve. He wasn’t taken to deuce until the ninth game of the second set, and won 80 per cent of first-serve points according to Infosys ATP Stats.

With the energetic south Florida crowd helping him claw back into the match, Jarry earned his lone break point of the match following a dramatic point he ended at net for the opportunity to break for 6-5. But Medvedev snuffed out the small opening with a Serve +1 backhand play and soon capitalised on a slew of Jarry unforced errors in a dramatic tie-break to get over the line.

Jarry had the second set on his racquet at 5/4 in the tie-break but couldn't find a first serve. He made consecutive routine unforced errors to hand the initiative back to Medvedev, who ultimately needed three match points to seal victory.

Jarry would have returned to the Top 20 and become the first Chilean to reach the Miami semi-finals since Fernando Gonzalez in 2004 had he produced an upset.


Medvedev leads Sinner 6-4 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series, but the Italian has won four straight, including a comeback from two sets down in January’s Australian Open final. Sinner will put his tour-leading 20-1 record on the season against Medvedev's similar impressive mark.

“He’s playing better and better and he’s confident," Medvedev said of Sinner. "Some matches you look on TV and when he looks to be in trouble he manages to find solutions and that’s what champions do. It’s a great challenge for me and will try to bring my 100 per cent.”

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Medvedev: Beauty can wait, just give me a W

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Defending Miami champ switches seamlessly between defense and offense, as conditions require
March 28, 2024
Daniil Medvedev in action against Nicolas Jarry on Thursday in Miami.Al Bello/Getty Images
Daniil Medvedev in action against Nicolas Jarry on Thursday in Miami.
By Andy West
Is Daniil Medvedev the ‘Grandmaster’ of the ATP Tour?

The No. 4 in the PIF ATP Rankings has often been compared to a chess player on court due to the way he outthinks opponents in both cat-and-mouse exchanges from the baseline and overall match strategy.

Few players have Medvedev’s ability to deploy with equal effectiveness a defensive or aggressive game plan depending on what an individual match-up dictates. In the first set of his quarter-final win against Nicolas Jarry at the Miami Open presented by Itau, Medvedev went into lockdown mode, hitting just three winners and four unforced errors, as he allowed the explosive Jarry to be the author of his own demise in the opening stanza.

But the 28-year-old is likely to retool ahead of Friday’s semi-final against Jannik Sinner, where the contest may demand the 28-year-old to play more aggressively to prevent the Italian from taking command.

Speaking before the tournament began, Medvedev said that his only preference for the style of game he brings to the court on any given day is the one that is most likely to deliver a victory.

“I think in every sport it is the same when you play defensively,” Medvedev told ATPTour.com when asked about whether defensive skills were undervalued in tennis. “People want to see the show, so they want to see offensive shots, and that’s why as soon as Carlos [Alcaraz] came on the Tour, he gained a big fanbase because he crushes the ball.

“I always say, ‘I could do it’, but then I think I would not have the results I have had in my career, and for me the result is the most important. It’s more important than to, let’s say, be beautiful on the court. For Carlos, it doesn’t work this way. That’s the way he plays and that’s the way it works [for him], so it’s kind of a benefit that this way gains fans and gains attention.”


Medvedev was given a far sterner test by Jarry in the second set of Wednesday’s clash. True to form, the defending Miami champion hardly switched to ‘all-out attack’ to counter the Chilean’s rise in level, but he had upped his winner count to 11 for the match by the time he closed out a 6-2, 7-6(7) win to take a 2-0 lead in the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head series.

So how does Medvedev decide when to step up the aggression himself during a match?

“In general I would say, sometimes you would play offensively, but you feel like sometimes guys like it, [just] like me,” he said. “When the other guy is offensive, [when he] goes to the net, I like it. I can pass him, here or there, I can make him miss.

“Then suddenly he will play defensively, and I will for sure recognise it straight away and try to adapt, but sometimes it can throw you off, because you are like, ‘What do I do? For one set and a half I was winning, I was playing defensively, and now I cannot do it anymore because the other guy started playing defensive’.”

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Awaiting Medvedev in the semi-finals is Jannik Sinner, who could hardly be considered a defence-minded player, but Medvedev was nonetheless noticeably attacking against the Italian when they met in the final at January’s Australian Open. The gameplan helped Medvedev open a two-set lead as he chased his second major title, although he was unable to maintain his momentum as Sinner roared back for a five-set triumph.

As Medvedev prepares to take on the red-hot Sinner for the first time since that Melbourne defeat, he might consider once again deploying some big early groundstrokes to prevent the Italian from taking control of rallies. Regardless, Medvedev will be ready to adjust to whatever his rival does in a rematch of the 2023 Miami final — even if only he can see the attraction in it.

“I think [players changing tactics] is how it works sometimes, and that is why tennis is such a beautiful sport,” he said. “When players can mix it up, it is in my opinion even more beautiful.”

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Medvedev: Problem was execution, not tactics vs. Sinner

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World No. 4 remains in search of first title since last May in Rome
March 30, 2024
Daniil Medvedev is 18-4 on the season heading into the clay-court swing.Elsa/Getty Images
Daniil Medvedev is 18-4 on the season heading into the clay-court swing.
By ATP Staff
After having success against Jannik Sinner with an aggressive game plan in the Australian Open final, Daniil Medvedev went back to the well on Friday at the Miami Open presented by Itau.

By attacking the Italian in Melbourne, Medvedev won the first two sets before falling just short of his second Grand Slam title. In the Miami semi-finals, the third seed never got out of second gear in a 6-1, 6-2 defeat.

"My plan was to play aggressive kind of like in Australia, a bit more aggressive than I usually do, and it's always a risk," Medvedev said in his post-match press conference. "Because even if I practise this on practice courts, my game is like counter, defensive style. But I felt like against him, and that's why I did it in Australia, this might not be not enough anymore, and that's why the head-to-head is a little bit worse than it was a couple of months ago."

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After winning his first six Lexus ATP Head2Head meetings against Sinner, Medvedev has now lost their past five matches beginning with the 2023 Beijing final. Despite not being able to repeat the result from their 2023 Miami final, Medvedev was happy with his tactics on Friday's matchup of Top 5 stars in the PIF ATP Rankings.

"I think the tactics I used in the beginning of the match was not the problem. The problem was the execution, too many mistakes, not enough precision," he assessed.

"So for sure after a match like this, I'm asking myself if I should have changed it earlier, but I stuck to what I thought was going to work, and I wanted to do it better and I didn't manage to do it. When I changed, it was just too late... When I have the next match against him, I'm going to see what I do and how I develop."

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In addition to his recent struggles against Sinner, Medvedev has not won a tour-level title since his surprise Rome run last May. On that front, the 28-year-old is keeping a positive perspective, acknowledging the caliber of tournaments in which he has been competing.

"I'm trying to play the best tournaments in the world. I think if we look tournament by tournament, I'm losing against big players," he said. "I have been in some finals and I lost against Sinner, Djokovic, Alcaraz — and for sure I want to beat them and, let's say, be better than them. But I didn't manage to do it and I have to work on it either mentally or tennis-wise.

"For example, on clay I'm going to play Monte-Carlo, Rome, Madrid and Roland Garros. It might be tough to get a title there, but if I would play 10 [ATP] 250s a year, I'd probably get some titles. Never be too confident, but I'm sure I would be able to. But I'm trying to play the best tournaments in the world."

Medvedev has reached two finals this year, at the Australian Open and Indian Wells. He also reached the semi-finals in both Miami and Dubai, where he lost to Ugo Humbert as the top seed at the ATP 500.

Sinner, by contrast, won the AO and Rotterdam titles this season before a semi-final defeat to Alcaraz in Indian Wells and his current Miami run. Asked what the Italian has improved since their meeting in last year's Miami final, Medvedev singled out one particular shot.

"He misses less, he chooses his shots more wisely," Medvedev said, before narrowing his answer. "He serves 10 times better. Jannik was always serving well, but now he serves like big, big.

"I wonder actually how he made it, because the serve is not that easy [of a] shot to work on, and now his serve is a big improvement for him... and kind of what I could have done better today, the serve."

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