Nick Kyrgios reached the US Open quarter-finals for the first time after a comprehensive victory over defending champion and world No 1 Daniil Medvedev
Deep in the tiebreak of one of the very best sets of tennis played this year, Nick Kyrgios slammed his racket and then hollered towards his box, his face a picture of utter rage. He had saved three set points with some audacious touches, but then as he generated his own, he was ground down by the immense durability and defence ofAs he stepped up to the baseline with the tiebreak level at 11-11, there was a time not long ago when this could have fizzled out in an anti-climax. But not these days.
Despite the fourth-round billing and Kyrgios’s seeding, this was a heavyweight battle between the best and most in-form players in the top half of the draw. The quality and tension radiating from them in the opening games alone underlined their mutual respect. By the end of the set, they had combined for 44 winners and just 20 unforced errors. The challenge, though, was maintaining such a high level. Kyrgios’s level sharply dropped at the beginning of the second set. He immediately threw in his worst service game and after four games, he was already on the verge of tanking the set. Medvedev, meanwhile, simply did not miss. He struck just five unforced errors as he levelled the match.
What could have been a defining misjudgement at a pivotal moment was merely a slight detour en route to victory. Two games later, Kyrgios played his best return game of the match, taking advantage of Medvedev missing first serves by easily breaking the Russian’s serve to establish a third set lead.
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