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<\/p>\nBrandon Nakashima continued his breakthrough summer by stunning fourth seed Daniil Medvedev in a thrilling three-set encounter at the Cincinnati Open, saving three match points en route to a memorable victory.<\/p>\n
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IMAGE: USA’s Brandon Nakashima plays a return against Daniil Medvedev during the Cincinnati Open at Lindner Family Tennis Center at Mason, Ohia on Tuesday. Photograph: Aaron Doster-Imagn Images <\/p>\n
Key Points<\/p>\n
Brandon Nakashima defeated fourth seed Daniil Medvedev 6-7(3), 7-6(4), 6-1 in the Cincinnati Open third round.
\nNakashima saved three match points in the second set before forcing a decider.
\nThis marks Nakashima’s first victory against Medvedev in four encounters.
\nThe American’s win improves his summer hard-court swing record to 10-2.
\nNakashima will now face Nuno Borges in the next round.<\/p>\n
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Brandon Nakashima stunned fourth seed Daniil Medvedev 6-7(3), 7-6(4), 6-1 in the Cincinnati Open third round on Tuesday, saving three match points along the way to complete another standout performance in a breakthrough summer.<\/p>\n
Match Highlights and Comeback<\/p>\n
Nakashima looked in control from the start, breaking Medvedev for a 4-2 lead and moving within a game of the opening set after a dominant hold. Yet the Russian dug in, saving four set points before breaking back as Nakashima faltered while serving for the set, then taking control of the tiebreak with a backhand passing shot down the line.<\/p>\n
Nakashima refused to fold, however, matching Medvedev hold for hold in the second set and saving three match points before edging another tiebreak to force a decider. Medvedev then lost his rhythm and composure in the deciding set as Nakashima raced away, breaking twice to seal victory.<\/p>\n
Nakashima’s Strong Form<\/p>\n
It was Nakashima’s first win in four meetings with Medvedev, who beat the American in the Brisbane final earlier this year and had won 6-1 in sets against him entering the match. Nakashima arrived in Cincinnati in strong form after reaching the semi-finals in Washington and his first Masters 1000 final in Montreal, and improved to 10-2 on the summer hard-court swing with Tuesday’s victory.<\/p>\n
The world number 22 will next face Nuno Borges after the Portuguese claimed a 6-3, 6-4 upset of Russian 13th seed Andrey Rublev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Nakashima continued his breakthrough summer by stunning fourth seed Daniil Medvedev in a thrilling three-set encounter at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2575,2890,1021,12629,8551,1923,19833,2523],"class_list":["post-53236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-daniil-medvedev","tag-brandon-nakashima","tag-cincinnati-open","tag-daniil-medvedev","tag-mason","tag-nakashima","tag-nuno-borges","tag-ohia","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}