Zhang upsets Medvedev in Halle

pChinese No. 1 Zhang Zhizhen scored his second Top 5 victory Wednesday when he upset third seed a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/daniil-medvedev/mm58/overview'Daniil Medvedev/a 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(5) at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/halle/500/overview'Terra Wortmann Open/a./p

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From 3/5 in the third-set tie-break, Zhang won four consecutive points to stun the World No. 5 and become the first Chinese player to reach the Halle quarter-finals./pp“A really tough match. Last time I lost a third-set tie-break [in Stuttgart last week]. And today again, a third-set tie-break. I was thinking, ‘Okay, it’s time. The perfect moment to get revenge’,” Zhang said. “I’m super happy that today I handled it to the end.”/p

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The 27-year-old dropped six consecutive games from 2-2 in the second set but recovered a break deficit early in the decider to pull within striking distance. Zhang, whose previous Top 5 victory came against a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/casper-ruud/rh16/overview'Casper Ruud/a at last year's a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/us-open/560/overview'US Open/a, again fought off a challenge on serve at 4-5 in the third set, when Medvedev was two points away from victory./pblockquote class="twitter-tweet"p lang="en" dir="ltr"ZZZ ON FIRE????brbrZhang takes down No. 3 seed Medvedev 6-3 2-6 7-6(5)!a href="https://twitter.com/ATPHalle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@ATPHalle/a | a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TERRAWORTMANN?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#TERRAWORTMANN/a a href="https://t.co/5kdI3bKgBg"pic.twitter.com/5kdI3bKgBg/a/pmdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) a href="https://twitter.com/atptour/status/1803469921076101597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"June 19, 2024/a/blockquote script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"/script

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The World No. 42 in the PIF ATP Rankings next faces American a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/christopher-eubanks/e865/overview'Christopher Eubanks/a, who ousted defending champion a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alexander-bublik/bk92/overview'Alexander Bublik/a 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-3. It will be Zhangrsquo;s first Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting with Eubanks./ppMedvedev fell to 28-9 on the season, with his best result being a final appearance at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/australian-open/580/overview'Australian Open/a and in Indian Wells. The 28-year-old was aiming for his 10th consecutive ATP 500 quarter-final./p

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Earlier in Halle, a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jan-lennard-struff/sl28/overview'Jan-Lennard Struff/a earned a dramatic victory against a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/luciano-darderi/d0fj/overview'Luciano Darderi/a, converting his 10th match point to win 6-7(2), 7-5, 7-6(10) after two hours, 31 minutes. The Italian Darderi will rue letting slip a match point at 8/7 in the third-set tie-break./p

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a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/matteo-berrettini/bk40/overview'Matteo Berrettini/a defeated American a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alex-michelsen/m0qi/overview'Alex Michelsen/a 7-6(5), 6-2 and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/arthur-fils/f0f1/overview'Arthur Fils/a cruised past a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/dominik-koepfer/ke73/overview'Dominik Koepfer/a 6-3, 6-4. Fils, 20, holds the top spot in the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah. The Frenchman is aiming for a return trip to the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/next-gen-atp-finals/7696/overview'Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF/a, where he was a finalist in 2023./ppdiv

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