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Second seed and reigning US Open champion, Daniil Medvedev of Russia, has advanced to the semi-final of the AustralianOpen2022 tennis tournament in Melbourne.

. Medvedev rallied from two sets down to beat Canada’s world number nine, Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-7, 4-6, 7-6, 7-5, 6-4.

Medvedev and Auger-Aliassime were meeting for the fourth time with the Russian having won all of their three previous matches. The Canadian won the first-set tiebreaker to go one set up. The 21-year-old had an early break in the second set. He went on to win it 6-3 when Medvedev’s return sailed long. The third set also went to a tie-breaker. Medvedev won the tie-breaker when Auger-Aliassime netted a forehand to prolong the contest.

Medvedev will play fourth-seed, Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece, who defeated Italian, Jannik Sinner, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 to advance. Stretched to five sets by Taylor Fritz on Monday, Tsitsipas showed no signs of fatigue. The 23-year-old sealed the win when Sinner’s backhand return went wide on match point.

 

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