On the 16th local time, Russia's 5th seed and former world No. 1 brother Medvedev once again experienced a 5-set battle, this time he was unable to refuse the occurrence of an upset - he was defeated by 19-year-old American star Tian Lerner 6:3, 7:6 (7:4), 6:7 (8:10), 1:6, 7:6 (10:7). So far, Medvedev has stopped in the men's singles round at the 2025 Australian Open.
Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's No. 5 seed and former world No. 1 brother
"I do hope it won't go to the fifth set, but I'm happy to get the win." "To be honest, I wanted to go to the toilet in the fourth set, so I wanted to end it as soon as possible and serve first in the fifth set, so I lost five games in a row and gave up, but fortunately everything went well in the end." In the end, the dark horse of the out-of-conference tournament won the last four points in a row in the deciding set, and successfully qualified after a tug-of-war of 4 hours and 49 minutes. By the end of the game, it was 2.55am local time at Melbourne Park.
Left-handed, Chinese-American, ranked 121st in the world men's singles this week, knocked out Medvedev for the biggest career victory, and became the second-youngest American male player in the round of 32 at the Australian Open since Sampras in 1990, when he was 18 years old, and the 2024 ATP New Talent Finals runner-up is set to face FranceC. Moyot 。