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Austrian # Dominic_Team, third in the world, reached the semi-finals of the American Tennis Meadows Championship, one of the Grand Slam championships, for the first time in his career, and was joined by Russian runner-up Daniel Medvedev and Belarusian Victoria Azarnka.
The team beat Australian Alex de Minor 6-1, 6-2 and 6-4 in 2 hours and 4 minutes to reach a W date with world number five Medvedev, who beat compatriot Andrei Rublev 7-6 (8 -6) 6-3 7-6 (7-5).
“I had a good feeling from the first moments of the match. I felt that the first set, especially when I broke his serve the second time, was strong and witnessed long exchanges of the ball,” said second seed Tiem.
He continued: “I think the first and second groups seem easier than they really were if we look at their results.”
The team is seeking its first major tournament title after losing the Roland Garros final in 2018 and 2019 and the Australian Open final earlier in the year to Novak Djokovic, who was barred from Flushing Meadows in the final price for inadvertently hitting a linesman with the ball.
Things were not easy for Medvedev in the face of his compatriot and childhood friend, as it took him two hours and 27 minutes to overcome the stumbling block of the tournament’s 10th seed.
Roblev led Medvedev 5-1 in the tiebreaker in the first set, before the latter came back from afar and settled it 8-6.
“Right now you feel like you have to fight for every point, but you also think you are: Well, maybe you lost this group,” said the third seed.
Medvedev, who lost last year’s final to Spanish veteran Rafael Nadal in a five-set marathon match, added: “I felt in trouble so I was very happy to win this tiebreaker.”
Among women, Azarnka, runner-up in 2012 and 2013, beat Belgian Elise Martens with a score of 6-1 and 6-0 in just one hour and 13 minutes, to renew the competition with her American rivals Serena Williams, who knocked her down in the end of the two years mentioned.
“It was a good match,” the former seeded said after the match. “I felt like I made the stadium big for him today, which really worked.”
Mertens was unable to maintain his serve once in the game and won just 19 percent of the points on his second serve.
Azanka, ranked 23rd in the world, is seeking his third Grand Slam title and his first in seven years after the Australian Open in 2012 and 2013.
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