On the 16th, Beijing time, the 21-year-old Danish player Rune defeated the two-time runner-up Russian former king Dmitry Medvedev 7:5, 6:4, and entered the men's singles final of the Indian Wells Tennis Masters for the first time, and also ended his seven-game losing streak in the top 4 of the professional tour.

21-year-old Danish player Rune

'It's all about finding the right rhythm and luckily I have good leg strength so I can get a lot of balls. Facing Medviv, who has been in the final since 2023, Rune, who has been in good form recently, showed patience and tactical wisdom, frequently disrupted the baseline rhythm of strong opponents with slicing balls in the opening match, and scored 13 points in a row in the second game of the second set, and even opened the gap in one fell swoop, and won the second set in straight sets in 1 hour and 40 minutes, winning the 150th game of his career, and returning to the championship match since Brisbane last January, "It's a tough challenge, we are very familiar with each other. I had the right strategy, so I'm very proud of myself. ”

Rune has advanced to the final of the ATP 1000-point Masters for the fourth time, and he has won the indoor hard court title in Paris in 2022, and now he has defeated Greece's 8th seed Tsitsipas and 5th seed Medvedev in the Southern California desert, and he is also the fourth time that he has repeatedly beaten the top 10 players in a single event.