Daniil Medvedev demolishes Paul; Arthur Fils arrives at CF from an ATP Masters 1000 for the first time | ATP Tour

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Medvedev demolishes Paul; Fils arrives at CF from an ATP Masters 1000 for the first time

They will face this Thursday for a place in Indian Wells semifinals

March 12, 2025

Daniil Medvedev has been reunited with its most lethal version in a tournament where it has historically harvested great results. And it is that Serial head No. 5 was presented in the quarterfinals of the BNP Paribas Open for the third consecutive year.

He won the first four and the last eight games of the Fourth Round match, which closed the day on Tuesday at Indian Wells, against Tommy Paul 6-4, 6-0 in an hour and 14 minutes. Of course, the appointment suffered a delay of about four hours due to the rain.

Medvedev is in the quarterfinals repeat presence among the eight best of the tournament for the third time (2023, 2024, 2025), in an ATP Masters 1000 where it has been a finalist in the last two editions.

“We have had ups and downs in the games that we have played so far,” said Medvedev, who had lost with the American in Rome last year. “The first was adjusted, then I defeated me easily and now I managed to beat him a little easier.”

“I am happy with my game. It is not easy to play here. Breaking the service – it is clear that we gain more meetings than we lose – but breaking does not mean too much here. So when I went back on the first set, I said: I tried to press. I managed to raise my level during the game, so I’m quite happy. ”

No. 6 of the PIF ATP Rankings faced the first game of the season against a rival of Top 20, raising its lexus atp head2head against the American 4-1.

Medvedev converted six of the eight break opportunities he had, according to the Inpos ATP statistics, in addition to taking advantage of Paul’s united 31 unworthy errors. After advancing to the quarterfinals for the 80th time at the ATP Tour and 22º in an ATP Masters 1000, he will now face Arthur Fils.

“Play well. I have seen his games here, he is in good shape, ”he warned about his next 20 -year -old rival. “In the quarterfinals of an ATP Masters 1000 you will never have an easy game. We will try to do our best. We play once [en Viena 2023]he was younger, so now it will be a different game. I will have to give my best version to try to win. ”

In his participation No. 15 in a main box at the ATP Masters 1000 level, Fils managed to qualify for the first time to about a quarter of this category.

He did it thanks to his dramatic game on Tuesday, in which he had to be superior to the suspensions for rain and the local Marcos Giron. In the end it was 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 in favor of the head of series No. 20 in the desert.

His arrival in quarterfinals had been very close last November in Paris, where he fell on the decisive set against Alexander Zverev in his debut in a few octaves of Masters 1000, but he has not had to wait long since then to tear down that barrier.

After beating Diallo and Musetti, against whom he had to save a match point, No. 21 of the PIF ATP Rankings had in front of a giron driven by his Californian audience and fully adapted to the returns to track after several suspensions for rain.

After giving up the second partial, the 20 -year -old right -handed remotely regained command by breaking the rest of the third set in his first game. From there it was not beyond 40/30 in any of its following games to the serve, including the last one in which the match at the time and 52 minutes of play closed.

This result also allows you to climb No. 18 of the live ranking, being very close to overcoming your personal record in the ranks (No. 19). One more victory would send it to No. 16, it would also mean his triumph No. 70 in the ATP Tour.