Daniil Medvedev destroys Roberto Bautista Agut in Astana

Daniil Medvedev played a fabulous match in Astana destroying Bautista Agut 6-1 6-1 en route to the semi-final.

Daniil Medvedev lost four times against Bautista Agut in his career and his only win came this year in Halle. That event is not an indoor event but it largely plays as one due to the way the tennis complex is constructed. Their first indoor match today went quite a bit similarly than that one went. It was a superb win by Medvedev as Bautista failed to find any solutions.

The court are quite slow and Medvedev was able to be on many balls pushing the ball back and forcing Bautista to risk more. He wasn't able to hit the ball consistently enough to do much damage in this match and that is why Medvedev took the opening set 6-1.

On his own serve, Medvedev was largely unplayable as he dropped only two points on his serve in the entire set. Not a long set but still quite impressive. Medvedev continued thrashing Bautista Agut in the second set as he jumped out to a 4-0 lead before finally surrendering a game on serve.

He would break Bautista once more to take the 5-1 lead closing it out 6-1. He faces Novak Djokovic next.