We are certainly seeing the best Andrey Rublev of the season, after a nightmare month. The Russian is finding serenity and results again. He also demonstrates it in these round of 16 matches in Madrid, where he overcomes Tallon Griekspoor and scores his third consecutive success without losing a set, after those with Bagnis and Davidovich. Rublev, who stopped here last year in the round of 16 against Khachanov, is starting to gain some points after the disaster in Monte Carlo, a tournament in which he was defending the title and was eliminated in the first round. He finishes 6-2 6-4 in an hour and 6 minutes against Griekspoor, in a match dominated by the Russian.
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His friend Daniil Medvedev also passes, overcoming the Kazakh Bublik and securing his ticket to the quarter-finals of the Spanish Masters 1000. After the enormous effort against Arnaldi and Korda, the former world number 1 finds the best day of this tournament against one of his best friends on the circuit. Meddy starts badly (it always happened in this 1000) and loses serve in the fifth game, but immediately regains the break and then closes in the tie-break (first a sensational 6-0, then the conversion on the fourth set point). Bublik, who makes the serve his best weapon and has only lost serve once in 3 sets with Shelton, completely deflates in the second set and goes 3-0 down (with 2 breaks). It is the key that puts the match in the hands of Daniil, who takes a risk in the final and loses one of the 2 break leads, but he will be there in the quarter-finals after this 7-6 (3) 6-4.
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With this result Medvedev becomes the tenth active player to have reached at least the quarter-finals in all the Masters 1000. The others are Djokovic (the best in the 1000 and beyond), Nadal and Murray, who were part of the Fab 4 with Federer and then many good players, many of whom are now in the final part of their careers. From Monfils to Thiem, passing through Cilic and Dimitrov, without forgetting Zverev and Tsitsipas, who this year immediately left Madrid against Monteiro.
