Medvedev played superlative tennis and ended Djokovic’s unbeaten record in 2023

It was a game. And it was also a big surprise. The thing is Daniel Medvedev beat him with a double 6-4 Novak Djokovic for the semifinals of Dubai ATP 500 and ended the undefeated streak of the world number one in this 2023, where he had not yet lost a game. His rival in the final will be Andrey Rublev, second favorite and reigning champion, who beat the German Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-6(9).

Djokovic has fifteen wins and no losses so far this year. Until the appointment before Medvedev. Winner of the first Grand Slam of the season, the Australian Open and the Adelaide tournament, the Belgrade player who this week became the player, male or female, with the longest time at number one in the world rankings, 378 weeks suffered his first setback.

The Balkan player, who had won four of the five times he had faced the Muscovite, even this season, in the Adelaide tournament, has always been against the tide and, at times, has shown a certain desperation on the track.

Medvedev is on the crest of a wave. He added his 13th consecutive win in the Dubai semi-final, which recently gave him victories in Doha and Rotterdam, his first this season.

The Muscovite, seventh player in the world, stopped at 5-2 in the first set, and although Djokovic, winner of 22 Grand Slam tournaments, fought back, he managed to close the set. Moreover, Medvedev has extended the level of him by breaking, early, in the second set. He finished with an inaccessible 2-0 for the world number one who remained without reaching the final to win the title in Dubai for the sixth time.

Medvedev will now face Rublev, who took an hour and 58 minutes to bring down Zverev to whom he had lost in four of the five games he played previously.

The Muscovite tennis player won the first set with ease and controlled the German’s reaction in the second, who managed to have a set point to extend the semifinal to the third set.

Rublev avoided his rival’s improvement and closed out victory to reach the eighteenth final of his career in pursuit of his thirteenth career trophy, his first on this course.

With information: EFE