Top 3 tennis matches on Saturday: Medvedev, Safiullin and the Russian derby at Wimbledon 2024
Daniil Salnikov July 6, 2024, 00:00 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
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The program is short:
🎾 13:00*: Arthur Fis (France) – Roman Safiullin (Russia), Wimbledon, third round 🎾 13:00*: Anna Kalinskaya (Russia, 17) – Lyudmila Samsonova (Russia, 15), Wimbledon, third round 🎾 14 :30*: Jan-Lennard Struff (Germany) – Daniil Medvedev (Russia, 5), Wimbledon, third round. Repeat when the score is 1:6, 3:6, 6:4, 1:1
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🎾 13:00*: Arthur Fis (France) – Roman Safiullin (Russia), Wimbledon, third round
*Match schedule may change and will be confirmed.
Intrigue: Can Roman Safiullin take on the young Frenchman?
Roman Safiullin successfully reached the third round of Wimbledon, but it will not be easy for him to advance further, because the Russian will face 20-year-old Frenchman Arthur Fiss. The tennis players have met twice before and in both cases Fiss was stronger: at the 2022 Lille Challenger and at the 2023 Marseille ATP-250. The winner of the new match will face one of the pair formed by Luca Pouille and Alex de Minaur.
Roman makes history at Wimbledon:
At Wimbledon they repeated the great record of comebacks in 2 rounds. The Russian also participated
🎾 13:00*: Anna Kalinskaya (Russia, 17) – Lyudmila Samsonova (Russia, 15), Wimbledon, third round
*Match schedule may change and will be confirmed.
Intrigue: How will the third Russian derby at Wimbledon end?
There are only two Russians left in the women’s singles draw at Wimbledon: Anna Kalinskaya and Lyudmila Samsonova. It is they who will fight each other for access to the fourth round. This will be the third Russian derby at the tournament after the Khachanov-Karatsev and Samsonov-Avanesyan clashes. Anna and Lyudmila met once before, in Courmayeur 2021, and then Samsonova turned out to be stronger. The winner of the new match will next fight one of the pair Elena Rybakina – Caroline Wozniacki.
Lyudmila defeated Avanesyan and reached Kalinskaya:
Samsonova won the Russian derby. And Khachanov lost to the world number 220 in five sets.
🎾 14:30*: Jan-Lennard Struff (Germany) – Daniil Medvedev (Russia, 5), Wimbledon, third round. Repeat when the score is 1:6, 3:6, 6:4, 1:1
*Match schedule may change and will be confirmed.
Intrigue: Can Medvedev cope with the difficult German?
This match could not be completed on Friday due to constant rain. Daniil Medvedev is making good progress in the Wimbledon draw so far. However, it will not be easy for the Russian to get to the second week, as his opponent will be German Jan-Lennard Struff. The tennis players have already met six times in official matches and the score so far is 5-1 in favor of the Russian. Daniil suffered his only defeat on grass courts – in Halle 2021. The winner of the new match will then face one of the pair Grigor Dimitrov – Gael Monfils.
Daniil had a bad time in the match with Alexander Müller:
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Medvedev made the transition at Wimbledon at the wrong time. His mistake is still being discussed on the Internet.
