One step away from achieving a new achievement in tennis. Daniil Medvedev is the world number one and this Friday he defeated Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic 7-6(0), 6-1. In this way, the Russian qualified for the final of the Los Cabos Open, a ATP 500 tournament.
Considered one of the players with the most growth on the tour in recent months, Kecmanovic broke in the fourth game and went ahead 4-1 by maintaining his service, but the Russian returned with a great variety of shots and great effectiveness on serve.
Daniil broke Miomir's serve in the seventh game, the before and after of the match because from then on the US Open champion took over the game, even though he couldn't break in the rest of the first set.
In the tie break, Medvedev made a mini break and then saved a ball with a parallel backhand at the net to go ahead 2-0, which set the course of the sudden death tie break, which he won 7-0.
Miomir didn't recover from the blow; in the second set he suffered a break in the second game and, although he recovered from 0-30 in the fourth game to get closer 1-3, he didn't have the capacity to respond to a Medvedev who improved as the match went on.
This Friday the world number one developed his good service, won 83 percent of the points with the first serve and hit 12 aces, but he was also sharp in his returns and, after breaking in the first set, he didn't face any break points.
With this victory, the Russian confirmed himself as world number one for the rest of the month, with a good chance of finishing the year at the top of the rankings, which he will try to achieve with good performances at the Montreal and Cincinnati Masters 1000 in the next two weeks, and at the US Open, where he will defend the title.
This Saturday, Medvedev will seek his first title of the season in Los Cabos in the final against the winner between Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, ninth in the rankings, and British Cameron Norrie, defending champion and twelfth in the ATP rankings.
It is worth mentioning that the Los Cabos Open is played on hard court with a prize purse of 920,625 dollars, of which the champion will take 125,040.