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[이데일리 스타in 임정우 기자] 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 won Stefanos Chichipas (6th place, Greece) 3-0 (6-4 6-2 7-5) in the men’s singles semi-finals 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, succeeded in overtaking the baseline by keeping the lead he caught at this time. In the second set, Medvedev showed stable play. He didn’t miss Chichipas’s mistake and won the second set.
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, followed by Chichipas, who succeeded in reversing by 4-3, he got another breakpoint opportunity, but couldn’t save it, and eventually a tight match to 5-5 continued. However, Medvedev managed to win the victory by running from 0-40 in the Chichipas subgame 5-5, and finally confirmed his first Australian Open final in 2 hours and 09 minutes.