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Brandon Nakashima (USA) returns the ball to Ben Shelton (USA) during singles final play at IGA Stadium on\u00a0Aug 13, 2026.\u00a0\u2014 Reuters<\/p>\n
MASON: American Brandon Nakashima stunned fourth seed Russian Daniil Medvedev 6-7(3), 7-6(4), 6-1 in the third round of the Cincinnati Open here at Lindner Family Tennis Center\u2019s Grandstand court on Tuesday, saving three match points to continue his impressive summer run.<\/p>\n
Nakashima made a triumphant start with breaking fourth seed for a 4-2 lead and moving to within one game of taking the opening set. <\/p>\n
However, the Russian fought back, saving four set points before breaking when Nakashima served for the set.<\/p>\n
Medvedev then dominated the tiebreak, sealing it with a backhand passing shot down the line.<\/p>\n
The American responded strongly in the second set, holding serve throughout as both players battled through a tense contest. <\/p>\n
Nakashima saved three match points before edging another tiebreak to level the match and force a deciding set.<\/p>\n
Medvedev struggled to maintain his composure in the decider, allowing Nakashima to take control. <\/p>\n
The 24-year-old broke twice and raced to victory, securing his first win in four meetings with the former world number one.<\/p>\n
Medvedev had beaten Nakashima in the Brisbane final earlier this year and entered the match with a 6-1 advantage in sets between the pair.<\/p>\n
Nakashima has now improved to 10-2 during the summer hard-court swing after reaching the semi-finals in Washington and his first Masters 1000 final in Montreal.<\/p>\n
The world number 22nd will face Nuno Borges in the next round after the Portuguese defeated 13th seed Andrey Rublev 6-3, 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Nakashima (USA) returns the ball to Ben Shelton (USA) during singles final play at IGA Stadium on\u00a0Aug…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[19912,2575,2890,1021,8551,15839],"class_list":["post-53313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-daniil-medvedev","tag-borges","tag-brandon-nakashima","tag-cincinnati-open","tag-daniil-medvedev","tag-nakashima","tag-rublev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53313","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=53313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}