Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: March 13, 2023, 09:24 IST
Daniil Medvedev at the Indian Wells (AP)
Daniil Medvedev defeated Ilya Ivashka 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 within the Indian Wells to push his ATP win streak to 16 matches
Daniil Medvedev, no fan of the gradual exhausting courts of Indian Wells, nonetheless got here out on prime in a backwards and forwards battle with Ilya Ivashka on Sunday to push his ATP win streak to 16 matches.
Medvedev, the world quantity six who’s coming off three straight titles at Rotterdam, Doha and Dubai, mentioned his 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 third-round victory over Eighty fifth-ranked Ivashka was a “matter of some factors.”
“Always tricky to play here,” mentioned Medvedev, a former world primary whose greatest exhibiting within the California desert was the spherical of 16 in 2021.
“(It’s) powerful to make something through the rallies, so simply must type of see who places extra balls in courtroom. If you lose a bit of momentum you lose a set.”
Medvedev was clearly frustrated at the end of the second set, grumbling to the referee that he would be “as slow as the court” in taking a toilet break.
He managed to tug himself collectively, nevertheless, to take a 5-0 lead within the third.
Serving to delay the match, Ivashka went down 0-40, however reeled off three straight factors and held serve with an ace to power Medvedev to serve it out.
“I missed much less. That’s the one factor you are able to do. You can not do extra,” Medvedev said. “It was a matter of a few points.
“Second and third sets for me they were kind of the same, the score is completely different. It’s just who plays better the most important points — break points, 30-all. I managed to do better in the third set.”
Medvedev lined up a fourth-round assembly with Germany’s Alexander Zverev, the previous world quantity two who’s seeded twelfth as he works his means again from the torn ankle ligaments that ended his 2022 marketing campaign at the French Open.
Zverev mentioned he felt lucky to return out with a 7-5, 1-6, 7-5 victory over Finland’s Emil Ruusuvuori, who Zverev judged “the a lot better participant” within the third set.
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