Danil Medvedev (4th place, Russia) entered the men’s singles finals at the Australian Open tennis tournament (Australia 80 million in total prize money, about 66.8 billion won).
Medvedev defeated Stefanos Chichipas (6th place, Greece) 3-0 (6-4 6-2 7-5) in the men’s singles semifinal on the 12th day of the tournament held in Melbourne, Australia on the 19th.
With this, Medvedev will face Novak Djokovic (1st place Serbia) in the final on the 21st.
This is the second time Medvedev has reached the singles final of the major tournament since the 2019 US Open runner-up.
Djokovic is slightly ahead of the match between Djokovic and Medvedev by 4-3.
However, Medvedev won 2-0 (6-3 6-3) in the Nito Men’s Pro Tennis (ATP) Finals last November, which was a recent confrontation, and Medvedev has an edge with 3 wins and 1 loss in the last four matches.
Medvedev, who first broke Chichipas’s sub-game at the first set game score of 2-2, kept the lead held at this time and took the first set.
In the second set, Chichipas made a lot of mistakes and turned into a relatively one-sided trend to 6-2. The number of errors in the second set was nearly three times that of Medvedev, who had only four with 11 Chichipas.
In particular, until the second set, Chichipas was helpless, unable to catch even a single breakpoint.
In the quarterfinal match against Rafael Nadal (2nd place, Spain), Chichipas, who overturned the set score of 0-2 to 3-2, and took a reverse win, set out to fight back in the third set.
Chichipas, who was dragged to 1-3 until the beginning of the 3rd set, defended his sub-game and pursued it by 2-3, breaking Medvedev’s sub-game for the first time on this day and tied 3-3.
In Medvedev’s sub-game, where Chichipas succeeded 4-3, he got another breakpoint opportunity, but he couldn’t save it, and eventually, a tight fight to 5-5 continued.
However, Medvedev managed to win the victory by fleeing from 0-40 in Chichipas’s subgame 5-5, and finally confirmed his first Australian Open final in 2 hours and 09 minutes.
It was Medvedev’s unilateral advantage in terms of game content, such as sub-ace 17-3 and attack success number of 45-19.
Following the 2019 Australian Open and 2020 French Open, Chichipas has not crossed the threshold of the semifinals of the major tournaments this time. It was a total loss in the three quarters of the major tournament.