Daniel Mérida deflates in the second set and is eliminated in Vienna against Medvedev

The Spanish tennis player Daniel Meridanumber 42 in the world ranking, said goodbye to the tournament Viennacategory ATP 500 and which is played on a hard court in the Austrian city, after losing in the third round by 7-6 (7-5) and 6-1 before the Russian Daniil Medvedevthird seed.

In its debut match at the event, Mérida started by adding eight points in a row and eleven from the first twelve, which allowed it to have a lead of 3-0 and a break.

However, his rival, who was suffering from the rest, managed to recover from the bad moment and emerge victorious from a stretch in which three consecutive breaks were seen, two of them in his favor. For this reason A tie break of alternatives was reached that ended up being won by the Russian 7-5..

The stumble in that initial round, and the wasted break ball in the first game of the second, affected Mérida, who He gave up his first serve and found himself down 3-0. He had the option to balance the contest in the fifth, a game lasting almost fifteen minutes in which he did not make any of the two breaking balls he had in his favor despite having left everything on the court.

Losing that opportunity, they ended up rushing definitively and were outplayed on the next eight points to end up falling 6-1. Medvedev will now face the British Cameron Norrie in the round of 16who had previously defeated the Argentine Francisco Cerúndolo 6-4 and 6-1.