Daniil Medvedev came to Australia to expand 2025 as a runner -up and ranked No. 5. During the opening match, the Russian player 'escaped' to Thai player Kasidit Samrej to win tickets to the second round after 5 intense sets.
By the second round, the opponent of Medvedev is the Learner Tien – Vietnamese -American player. This year is only 19 years old and has just impressed at Next Gen ATP Finals when he won the runner -up. Coming to Australia expanded, he once again created the earthquake.
This match, the Learn Tien shocked from the beginning of the match when joining the confidence and won both the first set. He defeated Medvedev 6-3 in Set 1 and then won 7-4 in the tie-break set series
This is also the time when Medvedev returned strongly. After winning 10-8 in a series of gun battles in Set 3, he easily defeated Learner Tien 6-1 in Set 4. At this time, the match had to enter the set of 5 decisions.
This continues to be an extremely tense set. The two players have twice exchanging break and then once again pulled the dentist into the Super Tie-break series. In the end, Learner Tien won with a score of 10-7 to officially win tickets to the third round.
With this victory, Tien has become the youngest American tennis player to defeat a world top 5 player in a Grand Slam since 1990. He has also become the youngest American player in the third round of a Grand Slam since the case of Donald Young in the US Open in 2007.
Learner Tien was born in Irvine, California (USA), whose parents are Vietnamese. At the young level, he used to play very successfully at the young level when ranked fourth in the world and reached two Grand Slams of Young Grand Slam (Australian Open 2023 and US Open 2023. Currently, Tien is ranked 121th in the ATP rankings.
