At this year's Indian Wells Masters, Big 3 Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal are all absent. Therefore, Daniil Medvedev is ranked No. 1 and is also the leading candidate for the championship. The Russian star is in an impressive performance on the hard yard when it has just been crowned in the US Open.
In the second and 3rd rounds Indian Wells Masters, Medvedev all have easy victories against Mackenzie McDonald and Filip Krajinovic. This morning, October 14, the world's No. 2 player entered the fourth round with the encounter of Grigor Dimitrov. Before the seed No. 23, Medvedev suddenly received a failure and officially said goodbye to America.
Entering Set 1, Medvedev has a favorable start when successfully breaking the first game of the opponent. In the rest of the set, the No. 1 seed continues to play firmly to preserve the advantage. Set 1 ends with a 6-4 victory for Medvedev.
Sang 2, Dimitrov started playing exploding. Immediately after losing the break in Game 1, “Little Federer” immediately reclaimed in Game 2. After that, the set witnessed the rain. Medvedev starts better when winning the break in game 2 and game 5, but Dimitrov has rising to the end of the set when there are 3 times to win the break in games 6, 8 and 10. The Bulgarian player closed this set with a breathtaking victory 6-4, thereby balancing the score 1-1.
Set 3 decisions, Dimitrov maintained psychological advantages. He started the set extremely favorable when there was 2 times of breaking the opponent's ball game and took 5-1. At Game 7, Medvedev reclaimed the break, but still could not turn the flag. The No. 1 seed accepted the racket with a 3-6 defeat in Set 3.
In the end, Medvedev lost 1-2 Dimitrov and officially stopped in the fourth round of Indian Wells Masters 2021.
Thus, both champions in US Open 2021 cannot do the story at Indian Wells Masters. Earlier, Emma Raducanu also lost shock in the second round and officially said goodbye to American.
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