Masters 1000 Madrid, Matteo Arnaldi struggles but surrenders to Daniil Medvedev

Masters 1000 Madrid, Matteo Arnaldi struggles but surrenders to Daniil Medvedev

In the second round of the Masters 1000 on the Madrid clay Matteo Arnaldi, world number 36, surrendered after a two-hour struggle to Russian Daniil Medvedev, number 4, who beat him in a comeback with a score of 2-6 6-4 6-4.

The 23-year-old from San Remo rescued himself from 0-40 on his serve at 1-1 and then in the next game he broke Medvedev, who suffered another break in the last game of the first partial.

Matthew misses a break point in the second game of the second set and then loses serve at 2-2, going from 2-1 to 2-4 losing twelve points in a row, and has no more way to recover the break disadvantage.

Unfortunately, Arnaldi loses his serve again in the opening of the third set and it will be the decisive one, he saves himself by canceling a break ball on 3-1 and another on 5-3 that è also a match point, but in the next game Medvedev holds serve to zero and now he will face the American Sebastian Korda.