Australian Open finalist in 2021 and 2022, former world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev was knocked out in the third round this year by American Sebastian Korda (6-7 3-6 6-7). The Russian will no longer appear in the top-10 at the end of the fortnight. Korda will face Hubert Hurkacz.
The success of the American, finalist 10 days ago in Adelaide once morest Novak Djokovic, suffers no discussion. Faced with an opponent who has all the trouble in the world to digest his incredible loss to Rafael Nadal last year on this same Rod Laver Arena, Sebastian Korda produced the best tennis. A game turned towards the offensive which left no respite to Daniil Medvedev, who signed only 28 winning strokes ( once morest 50 for Korda).
With this success, Sebastian Korda is emerging as one of the great outsiders of the tournament, a tournament that his father Petr had won in 1998. In a top of the table which no longer has a single Grand Slam winner, the son of Petr has the means to go very far.
His next round will oppose him to the Pole Hubert Hurkacz (no 10), victorious in five sets from Denis Shapovalov (no 20). Trained since the beginning of the year by Radek Stepanek, who was a pupil of Petr Korda, the American must now set only the sky as the limit.
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