Top seed Medvedvev stored Denis Shapovalov winless in opposition to world quantity ones with a 7-5, 7-5 victory while Poland’s Swiatek misplaced 6-3, 6-4 to 2019 Cincinnati champion Keys, who wanted 5 match factors to complete off the shock triumph.
FILE: Russia’s Daniil Medvedev celebrates after profitable a match in opposition to Maxime Cressy of the US throughout their males’s singles match on day eight of the Australian Open tennis match in Melbourne on 24 January 2022. Picture: MICHAEL ERREY/AFP
CINCINATTI – Top-ranked Daniil Medvedev superior to the ATP and WTA Cincinnati Masters quarterfinals on Thursday while ladies’s world primary Iga Swiatek was upset by American Madison Keys.
Top seed Medvedvev stored Denis Shapovalov winless in opposition to world quantity ones with a 7-5, 7-5 victory while Poland’s Swiatek misplaced 6-3, 6-4 to 2019 Cincinnati champion Keys, who wanted 5 match factors to complete off the shock triumph.
Shapovalov, who misplaced in an hour and three-quarters, has dropped all eight profession matches he has performed in opposition to the elite echelon.
Medvedev moved right into a quarterfinal in opposition to eleventh seed Taylor Fritz after the American stopped quantity six seed Andrey Rublev 6-7 (4/7), 6-2, 7-5.
“It was a fight today, definitely not easy,” mentioned Medvedev, who clinched the highest US Open seeding when Rafael Nadal misplaced right here in the second spherical.
“The match was pretty tight, played at a great level. My goal was to stay in every point possible and try to put pressure on him if I had the chance.”
Medvedev secured late breaks in each units as he matched his risky Canadian opponent.
Medvedev and Fritz have by no means performed.
“We trained together at the start of the season before the ATP Cup,” Medvedev mentioned. “He won Indian Wells, he’s a Masters champion. I need to be at my best to try and beat him.”
Unseeded Keys was thrilled together with her defeat of Swiatek, in opposition to whom she had misplaced two prior matches.
“I had a couple of games with a couple of match points,” Keys mentioned. “She beat me pretty badly last time so I’m happy to get the win.”
Swiatek by no means discovered an ace and was damaged 5 occasions as she fought again in useless after standing one recreation from defeat.
It was the second week in a row that the Pole, who put collectively a 37-match win streak this season, misplaced in a Masters third spherical. She suffered the identical destiny in Toronto seven days earlier.
Keys performs on Friday in opposition to Wimbledon winner Elena Rybakina, who superior to the final eight 6-2, 6-4 over Alison Riske-Amritraj.
Also ousted was Estonian second seed Anett Kontaveit, who fell to China’s Zhang Shuai 2-6, 6-4, 6-4.
PEGULA BEATS RADUCANU
Top-ranked American Jessica Pegula ended the run of US Open champion Emma Raducanu 7-5, 6-4, sending the Briton onto the apply courts earlier than the August 29 begin of her Grand Slam title protection.
Raducanu will head to New York with a 15-18 document since her 2021 title triumph and can drop from the top-10 after failing to succeed in the quarter-finals.
The teenager put a backhand into the web to present her opponent a match level, with Pegula sending over a service winner to wrap up the victory in an hour and three-quarters on her opponent’s twenty first unforced error.
“I didn’t feel amazing out there,” Pegula mentioned after reaching her seventh profession quarter-final at a Masters 1000. “I’ve never hit with Emma, there was a lot to get used to.
“I’m pleased with how I competed and stayed in it. I’m glad I dealt with issues rather well. I’ve been enjoying very constantly, no dramas, get on the market and do what you have to do. I attempt to try this each single week.”
Czech Petra Kvitova, twice a Wimbledon champion, defeated Wimbledon finalist Ons Jabeur 6-1, 4-6, 6-0. Kvitova broke six occasions as her fifth-ranked Tunisian opponent dedicated six double-faults.
Borna Coric, who upset second seed Rafael Nadal, continued his harm comeback progress by beating Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 6-3.
Number 152 Coric is the lowest-ranked ATP Masters 1000 quarter-finalist since 239th-ranked Ivo Karlovic at 2011 Indian Wells.
Fourth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, semifinalist on the final two editions, defeated Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 6-3.
John Isner despatched down 20 aces in a 7-6 (7/3), 1-6, 7-6 (7/4) defeat of US compatriot Sebastian Korda. At 37, Isner is the oldest Cincinnati males’s quarter-finalist in the post-1968 Open Era.
Isner handed Roger Federer, who was a youthful 37 when he reached his most up-to-date Cincinnati quarterfinal in 2018.
