Two-time runner-up Daniil Medvedev reached the third round of the Australian Open after defeating John Millman in straight sets
Daniil Medvedev retrieved his pickle juice, fresh from a 36-shot rally. The Australian in the other chair sucked down a gel. John Millman knows hard work. He is maybe his country’s biggest battler. Two days ago he played his best tennis in the last two of his five sets against Marc-Andrea Huesler, dipping in energy and then re-emerging more alive than the first time. But anybody who has ever heard about Medvedev’s training regime can attest he is more durable than he looks.
Millman was gallant and full of grit on Margaret Court Arena and, for the opening hour at least, it looked like it was going to be a long night. The 33-year-old is currently ranked 148th but spent the opening exchanges short-angling the seventh seed, sitting deep and working him wider and wider, and then off the court, adding variation with the odd approach to the net.
What Millman probably did not realise is that he was unwittingly playing Medvedev into form, priming the 2022 runner-up for another deep run in this edition. Where the man who kept him from last year’s title, Rafael Nadal, had crumbled and bowed out in straight sets hours earlier, Medvedev has the look of a man just getting started.
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