Despite difficulties, Daniil Medvedev rolls on at Indian Wells
Daniil Medvedev celebrates defeating Ilya Ivashka in the course of the BNP Paribas Open on March 12, 2023 in Indian Wells, California. Julian Finney/Getty Photographs/AFP
Daniil Medvedev, no fan of the sluggish onerous courts of Indian Wells, however got here out on high in a back-and-forth battle with Ilya Ivashka on Sunday to push his ATP win streak to 16 matches.
Medvedev, the world quantity six who’s coming off three straight titles at Rotterdam, Doha and Dubai, stated his 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 third-round victory over Eighty fifth-ranked Ivashka was a “matter of some factors.”
“At all times difficult to play right here,” stated Medvedev, a former world primary whose finest displaying within the California desert was the spherical of 16 in 2021.
“(It’s) robust to make something in the course of the rallies, so simply need to type of see who places extra balls in court docket. Should you lose a little bit momentum you lose a set.”
Medvedev was clearly annoyed on the finish of the second set, grumbling to the referee that he can be “as sluggish because the court docket” in taking a toilet break.
He managed to drag himself collectively, nonetheless, to take a 5-0 lead within the third.
Serving to lengthen the match, Ivashka went down 0-40, however reeled off three straight factors and held serve with an ace to pressure Medvedev to serve it out.
“I missed much less. That’s the one factor you are able to do. You can’t do extra,” Medvedev stated. “It was a matter of some factors.
“Second and third units for me they had been type of the identical, the rating is totally totally different. It’s simply who performs higher a very powerful factors — break factors, 30-all. I managed to do higher within the third set.”
Medvedev lined up a fourth-round assembly with Germany’s Alexander Zverev, the previous world quantity two who’s seeded twelfth as he works his method again from the torn ankle ligaments that ended his 2022 marketing campaign on the French Open.
Zverev stated he felt lucky to return out with a 7-5, 1-6, 7-5 victory over Finland’s Emil Ruusuvuori, who Zverev judged “the significantly better participant” within the third set.
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