Nadezhda Petrova, bronze medalist of the 2012 Olympics, former world third racket, and founder of the children’s tennis school, shared her expectations from the fourth round match to be played between Russian Daniil Medvedev and Portuguese Nuno Borges at the Australian Open. In his comments to socialbites.ca, he expressed the opinion that Medvedev had found his game and should beat his opponent.
“I just expect victory from Dani. Of course, the Portuguese understands that after the great excitement when he beat Dimitrov, he has nothing to lose, he will give everything. Dana needs to adapt, but he is still a player of a slightly different caliber – although Although he did not play with such confidence in the first matches at the Australian Open.
He decided not to participate in the warm-up tournaments this year and so far everything is going well. Of course, there were difficulties, but this was his advantage: he needs to get involved quickly, get used to it and raise his level with each match. Because with each round the opponents become more serious. The fact that he had already had a very tense match should have liberated him because he could have been eliminated.
So Dani has a good network. In the last match, he did not lose a set to Auger-Aliassime, which means he found his game,” said Petrova.
Borges defeated Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the third round with scores of 6:7 (3:7), 6:4, 6:2, 7:6 (8:6) in four sets. On the other hand, Medvedev eliminated Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime in the previous round with scores of 6:3, 6:4, 6:3. The Medvedev-Borges match will kick off early on Monday morning Moscow time.
Previously Rublev was praised For moral fortitude in the match with De Minaur.