The top seed Daniil Medvedev made a winning start in Dubai. The 2023 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships winner faced Jan-Lennard Struff in the first round and earned a 6-4, 7-6 triumph in an hour and 44 minutes.
Daniil retired against Felix Auger-Aliassime last week due to food poisoning. He recovered and produced another fine performance against the German. The top seed took nine points more than his rival and fought well despite serving at 55%!
Medvedev dropped 20 points in 11 service games and denied all four break points to keep the pressure on the other side. Jan-Lennard struggled behind the second serve and played against ten break chances.
Moving through 👏@DaniilMedwed defeats Struff 6-4 7-6 to make the round of 16#DDFTennis pic.twitter.com/dNHxASsCUT
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He denied nine and battled nicely before falling in the tie break of the second set. Daniil tamed his strokes nicely and laded 25 winners and 21 unforced errors. Struff hit 27 direct points and sprayed 44 mistakes, struggling big time from the baseline.
They hit the same number of service winners, while Daniil claimed 30 points more from the baseline! Jan-Lennard could not do much in the most common exchanges. His good resistance came after taking almost 30 points…
