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First the victory at the Paris Masters, now the triumph at the season finale: world number four Daniil Medvedev won the final in London with a lot of morale against US Open champion Dominic Thiem from Austria 4: 6, 7: 6 (7: 2), 6th: 4 and celebrated the greatest achievement of his career.
24-year-old Medvedev became the first player to beat world numbers one to three in the ATP Finals. In the preliminary round he defeated world number one Novak Djokovic, in the semifinals he eliminated Rafael Nadal before Thiem had to congratulate him in the final. Only three players had managed to do so during the ATP tour, including Boris Becker in Stockholm in 1994. Medvedev finished the season with ten straight wins: before the ATP finals, he had already defeated German number one Alexander Zverev in the final in Paris. Hamburger had already failed in the London group stage.
Check of the winner for approximately 1.3 million euros
Thiem’s first serving game lasted only ten minutes. Long rallies developed, with a double fault Medvedev Thiem gave the first break 3: 2. The Austrian has never given up the advantage.
Even in the second set, both players were mostly at eye level, but sometimes they only showed high quality tennis. Thiem negligently left a good chance for the preliminary decision and Medvedev punished him at the tiebreak.
In the ruling ruling, Thiem rejected three break points. Shortly after, however, he could not free himself, Medvedev was strengthening, the break at 3: 2 went to him. And since he showed no weakness afterwards, he secured the winner’s check for around € 1.3 million.
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