The second racket of the world Medvedev in the fourth round lost to Croatian Marin Cilic with a score of 2:6, 3:6, 2:6. Tennis players spent 1 hour and 45 minutes on the court. Cilic for the first time took over Medvedev, the previous three meetings ended in victory for the Russian. Medvedev played the first match on May 17, a month and a half following the operation to remove the hernia.
Cilic filed 5 aces during the match, did not make a single double fault, actively won 33 goals, made 22 unforced errors. Medvedev’s statistics – 4 aces, 5 double faults, 15 actively won goals, 28 unforced errors. The Croatian converted 5 out of 7 break points, the Russian had no chance of a break.
Cilic’s rival (20th seed) in the ¼ finals of Roland Garros will be another representative of Russia, Andrey Rublev (7).
Medvedev is 26 years old. He is the winner of the US Open (2021), the champion of the ATP Finals (2020) and the winner of the Davis Cup (2021) as part of the Russian team. Last year, Medvedev reached the quarterfinals of Roland Garros, and before that he had been eliminated in the first round of the tournament for four years.