“It was an unbelievable match” - said Medvedev after his comeback win over Cilic

The match was a great one that saw Cilic dominate play early in the match and taking a 2-0 lead before losing his magical touch in the next three. It was a first for Medvedev as he never came back from being 0-2 down to win a match and after doing so he said:

“It was an unbelievable match. I think tennis fans always enjoy watching players come back from two-sets-to-love down and for it to be five sets. I certainly do so when I watch tennis on the TV. It’s my first comeback [from 0-2 sets down], and actually what’s amazing is against Goffin at Wimbledon in 2019, I was two-sets-to-love down and I had a break in the fifth set, but I lost. So when I left the court after the fourth set today, I told myself, ‘It’s not going to be another one of those"

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Medvedev was not very happy with his level early on in the match which was visible from his body language but after Cilic started dropping off a cliff in the 3rd and 4th set Medvedev found confidence. Even so, there was some doubt late in the match as he explained:

“So I’m really happy. When I was 5-0, 40/0 up at the end and Marin came back to 2-5, I thought to myself, ‘Again..!’ Marin is an amazing player and for the first two sets he basically destroyed me.”

The Russian will face Hubert Hurkacz next who is a similar opponent to CIlic with many of the same strenghts so the Russian will need to be careful not to dig himself into a hole once more.

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