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He was knocked out in the second round of this year\u2019s Australian Open by teenage American Learner Tien.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn match of long rallies, Medvedev did not carve out a break point until the 12th game of the second set, by which time he was a set down. He took his chance and then went on attack in the third set to win in two hours 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA third Russian former champion, Andrey Rublev, the fifth seed, beat Alexander Bublik 6-3, 6-4.<br \/>\n\tAlex de Minaur celebrated his birthday by beating Russian Roman Safiullin 6-1, 7-5, even though the Australian did not enjoy the weather.<br \/>\n\t\u201cThey\u2019re tough days, these ones,\u201d said De Minaur. \u201cIt\u2019s cold, it\u2019s windy, you probably don\u2019t want to get out of bed. But once you step on court, you have to do everything you can to win. Whether it\u2019s ugly or pretty tennis, you just put the ball in the court, and that\u2019s what I did today.\u201d<br \/>\n\t\u201cOut went any sort of tactics you had for the match and it was all about surviving more than anything.\u201d<br \/>\n\tIn the evening matches, Novak Djokovic was making his comeback against Matteo Berrettini after his Australian-Open semifinal injury.<br \/>\n\tEarlier in the day, Djokovic said that Andy Murray would continue as his coach \u201cindefinitely.\u201d<br \/>\n\t\u201cI expressed my desire to continue the collaboration with him so I am really glad he did accept,\u201d said Djokovic.\n                    <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2590757\/sport\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; DOHA: World No.6 Daniil Medvedev eliminated compatriot and defending champion Karen Khachanov 4-6, 7-5, 6-3&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5246,4633,442,5247,5250,5248,5251,606,3710,5010,5249],"class_list":["post-53122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-ancelotti","tag-chance","tag-city","tag-downplays","tag-eliminating","tag-guardiolas","tag-madrid","tag-man","tag-percent","tag-playoffs","tag-suggestion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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