On September 13, Beijing time, the MEN's Singles Final of the US Open was played at Arthur Ashe Stadium, and the world's no. 1 Djokovic met the No. 2 seed of the final, The Russian Daniel Medvedev. Medvedev, who reached the US Open final twice in three years, performed perfectly, sweeping Djokovic 6-4 in three games to win his first Grand Slam singles title of his career. In this way, Medvedev became the first post-95 player to win a Grand Slam men's singles title. Djokovic's 27-game winning slam singles streak was ended, missing the fourth individual title.
In this year's US Open men's and women's singles matches, the winners are all new stars. In the women's singles final held the day before, 18-year-old British Chinese youngster Raducannu continued his hot state, losing two straight sets to defeat 19-year-old Canadian Fernandez 2:0, winning 10 consecutive games and winning 20 consecutive games, and winning the US Open women's singles championship without losing a set. Medvedev, on the other hand, was born in 1996 and is 25 years old.
Medvedev and Covic have met five times before, Djokovic has a 5-3 advantage, the most recent of which came when Djokovic won the match in three straight sets in the final of this year's Australian Open. Although Medvedev played very steadily at the US Open, all parties are still optimistic that Djokovic can win the game and achieve the annual Grand Slam.
At the beginning of the first set, Djokovic was in trouble as soon as he came up, sending a break point, and as he returned the ball with his forehand out of bounds, Medvedev achieved a break, and the Russian easily saved his serve to take a 2-0 lead. In the third set, Djokovic sent a break point again, but then he scored four consecutive points to save the serve, and at the end of the set, he played ace ball in a row. In the next four sets, both sides were in quite good shape, and both successfully completed the guarantee. In the eighth inning, Medvedev scored four consecutive points to save love Game and lead 5-3. In the next two sets, the match was still in mutual protection mode, with Medvedev taking the lead 6-4.
In the second set, Djokovic saved the serve first, and in the second set to get the break point 40-0, but Medvedev did not tie his hands, and the Russian took 5 consecutive points to complete the save! In the fourth set, Djokovic failed to grasp two break points, and the next set was broken by Medvedev, and the Russians took a 4-2 lead after saving again. After a few innings, the two entered mutual insurance mode! In the tenth set, Medvedev was challenged, but as Djokovic crossed the ball out of bounds, Medvedev won another set 6-4 to give a 2-0 lead.
At the beginning of the third set, Djokovic's slump continued, he made a mistake in front of the net to send a break point, and then in the next round, the Serbian counter-tapped the ball out of bounds, and Medvedev achieved a break, and the Russian then completed a set to save a 2-0 lead. In the third set, Medvedev continued his strong performance, he broke the Djokovic serve again, and extended the lead to 4-0 after successfully saving the serve! In the next few innings, both sides completed the hold! Entering the serve to win the game, Medvedev was broken with the championship point in hand, and Djokovic saved again to make it 4-5! In the crucial tenth set, Medvedev did not let the opportunity slip away, and he successfully cashed in the championship point to sweep Djokovic 3-0 to win the first Grand Slam men's singles title of his career.
This title is the first Grand Slam singles title of Medvedev's career and the first Grand Slam singles title won by a post-95 male player. It is worth noting that one statistic confirms Medvedev's outstanding performance on the hard court, where the Russians have maintained a complete victory in the first set of the hardcore Grand Slam (Australian Open and US Open) with a record of 32 wins and 0 losses.
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