Daniil Medvedev was in a position to “block the noise” following a mood tantrum in his earlier match and moved again into competition on the ATP Finals with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Alex de Minaur on Tuesday, native time.
De Minaur didn’t play badly, he was merely barely allowed to play in any respect with Medvedev hitting 24 winners and dropping simply two factors on serve within the second set.
The Russian did not face a single break level and was usually a lot sharper than in his straight-set loss to Taylor Fritz on Sunday — throughout which he smashed his racket and misplaced his cool twice.
When the match was over, Medvedev closed his eyes and held his fingers to his ears. Then he wrote on a digital camera lens, “Block the noise”.
“I went into this match additionally blocking the noise even from myself,” Medvedev mentioned.
“No like, tantrums and stuff. Simply block the noise. And I actually did not care what was taking place on the court docket. I simply tried to play and it was feeling.”
Daniil Medvedev vowed no extra tantrums after his first match defeat. (Getty Pictures: LightRocket/Nicolò Campo)
Later, top-ranked Jannik Sinner made it two wins in two matches, beating Fritz 6-4, 6-4 in a rematch of the US Open ultimate that the Italian additionally received in straight units.
Sinner, who beat Alex de Minaur in his opening match on the season-ending occasion for the highest eight gamers, improved to 23-1 in his final 5 tournaments.
The highest two finishers from every round-robin group advance to the semifinals.
De Minaur, who’s making his debut on the season-ending occasion for the 12 months’s high eight gamers, has misplaced each of his opening matches and can probably be eradicated.
The Australian had received the pair’s solely earlier match this 12 months, within the final 16 at Roland Garros, however that counted for little when his opponent started as if decided to exorcise the reminiscence of his opening match.
Medvedev received the finals in 2020 — the final version held in London.
“The extra in style you change into, the extra followers you get, the extra haters you get, the extra consideration you get. And typically even the nice noise could make you off stability,” Medvedev mentioned.
“You understand, you win all the pieces and everybody thinks you are a god … Then you definately lose two matches and everyone seems to be like, ‘Completed, your profession is completed.’ So typically it is good simply [to] block it,” Medvedev added.
On Thursday, Medvedev faces Sinner and de Minaur performs Fritz within the ultimate matches of the group.
Earlier Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson misplaced 7-6 (7-3) 7-5 to Harri Helioevaara and Henry Patten within the doubles and are 1-1 after their two matches, nonetheless in with an affordable likelihood of constructing the final 4.
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