Third-seeded Daniil Medvedev rallied from two units all the way down to beat Emil Ruusuvuori 3-6, 6-7 (1), 6-4, 7-6 (1), 6-0 in a 4-hour, 23-minute second-round Australian Open match that ended at 3:39 a.m. native time.
“Robust, powerful powerful,” Medvedev, a two-time Australian Open finalist, stated of the late end.
It definitely was a tricky night time for the event’s No. 3 seeds.
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Medvedev walked onto Rod Laver Enviornment at 11:07 p.m. Thursday after Elena Rybakina misplaced the longest tiebreaker ever in a girls’s Grand Slam occasion, 22-20 to Anna Blinkova.
And so Day 5 of the Australian Open completed on a Friday, even with the additional Sunday added to the beginning of the event and the primary spherical being cut up over three days.
It was the newest end to date this yr, however not near the event report. Andy Murray completed off Thanasi Kokkinakis simply after 4 a.m. final yr in a second-round match that lasted 5 hours, 45 minutes.
And that was solely adequate for second place. The most recent-finishing match in Grand Slam historical past ended with Lleyton Hewitt beating Marcos Baghdatis at 4:34 a.m. in 2008.
Medvedev will face No. 27 Felix Auger-Aliassime, who beat Hugo Grenier 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2.