![]() On day six at the O 2 Arena, he left with a 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 win, his first over the owner of 20 majors. The 24-year-old Russian has hit a new peak in recent weeks, arriving with the Paris Masters title. In the evening Nadal, the world No 2, quickly discovered what he might have suspected: this was not the Medvedev he had dismissed for the loss of three games in their first meeting last year, but the vibrant foe who took him to five sets in the 2019 US Open final, then gave him a serious argument here a year ago. The 25-year-old Austrian won 7-5, 6-7 (10), 7-6 (5), even though the world No 1, whose brilliant season has ended with a slight dip, saved four match points in the second set and was within three points of victory in the deciding shootout. In the first semi-final, Thiem and Djokovic scrapped like dogs over a bone for nearly three hours of a tense but not great match, although there were many high-grade exchanges. ![]()
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