Wimbledon has crossed the equator, and the men’s bracket of the tournament is simply an amazing picture for Russian fans. Already two of our tennis players secured the quarterfinals.

Now it’s up to the first racket of Russia. This year, Medvedev has already repeated his best achievement at Wimbledon, reaching the fourth round. But the form of Dani and his opponent set up in a positive way.

However, hardly anyone expected that our player would go through to the next round so easily.

Confident Medvedev

Despite a busy career, Medvedev has not yet had a meeting with a very promising Czech Jiri Legechka. And the point here, of course, is the age of the opponent – he is only 21 years old. However, experts already believe that the 37th racket of the world can beat the tops of the world ranking.

In the previous round, Jiri passed the American Tommy Paul, who ranks 15th in the ATP rating, although he spent a lot of energy – he had to fight all five sets, three of which ended in tie-breaks.

Jiri Legechka / Photo: © Michael Regan / Staff / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages.ru

Against the background of this path of the Czech to the 1/8 finals, Medvedev’s resource should have been more: nevertheless, with Fucovic, our player ran four sets without tie-breaks and won outwardly easily. And the beginning of the match confirmed this. In the very first game, the Russian made a break, and then calmly controlled the course of the game.

For the first game, the opponent did not have a single break point, but Danya could take Legechka’s serve more than once. It’s good that the backlog created at the beginning was enough, and Medvedev won the start of the meeting (6:4). At the same time, the Russian was not perfect, having made 12 unforced errors during the set, but Jiri had even more of them (14).

insidious callus

During the break, the camera showed a close-up of the leg of the Czech, who was diligently rewinding the callus. Obviously, this made him uncomfortable, because in the pauses between draws, Jiri limped.

In the second set, Legechka continued to experience problems. In the third game, he lost his pitch and sank a bit. The moment came when Medvedev could develop success, especially since Danya played his serve flawlessly.

But then the unexpected happened – someone in the stands felt bad, and the referee suspended the game. Medics assisted the spectator, and the athletes struggled with their nerves on the benches to rest.

After 10 minutes, with the score 30:30 on the serve of the Czech tennis players again took to the court. Danya immediately created a break point, but the Czech won it back. Then three more times the Russian could make a second break during the set, but did not achieve success. But Jiri converted his first chance into a winning game: 2:3.

Local success, however, did not become a turning point. The callus, which did not seem too serious, made itself felt and prevented Jiri from playing at full strength. Danya felt it and pressed harder and harder. As a result, our player still succeeded in another break, after which Medvedev took the second set (6:2).

Daniil Medvedev and Jiri Legechka / Photo: © REUTERS / Dylan Martinez

Heading for a break, Danya was surprised to notice that the opponent decided to stop the fight. Legechka could not move freely around the court, and it is useless to count on a victory over Medvedev without a full calculation.

This refusal provided the Russians with the first Wimbledon quarter-final in history, in which he will play with the winner of the Eubanks-Tsitsipas pair. So far, this tournament is developing very favorably for Daniil.