{"id":405210,"date":"2022-08-19T22:04:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.bullfrag.com\/medvedev-and-alcaraz-advance-firmly-in-cincinnati\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T22:04:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:34:21","slug":"medvedev-and-alcaraz-advance-firmly-in-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullfrag.com\/medvedev-and-alcaraz-advance-firmly-in-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev and Alcaraz advance firmly in Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Cincinnati tournament, Masters 1000 in the men&#8217;s branch and WTA 1000 in the women&#8217;s, held all its <b>round of 16 tie<\/b>in which the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz beat the Croatian Marin Cilic and the Argentine Diego Schwartzman fell to the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.<\/p>\n<p>Without the pressure of defending his leadership in the ATP ranking, Medvedev defeated Canadian Denis Shapovalov, world number 21, 7-5, 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a struggle today, definitely not easy,&#8221; said Medvedev, who broke his opponent in his last few games serving in each set.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n           <span class=\"Enhancement-item\"> <\/p>\n<figure class=\"Figure\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n             <figcaption class=\"Figure-info\">\n              <span class=\"Figure-caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">Carlos Alcaraz.<\/span><br \/>\n              <span class=\"Figure-credit\" itemprop=\"author\">(DYLAN BUELL\/Getty Images via AFP)<\/span><br \/>\n             <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p> <\/span>\n          <\/div>\n<p>On the hunt for his second win in Cincinnati after 2019, <b>Medvedev will meet in the quarterfinals for the first time with the American Taylor Fritz<\/b>champion this year of the Indian Wells Masters 1000 and executioner on Thursday of the also Russian Andrey Rublev.<\/p>\n<p>At 26, the player from Moscow is assured of reaching the world number one spot at the start of the US Open (August 29-September 11), where he will defend his 2021 triumph, his only Grand Slam crown.<\/p>\n<p>only spanish <b>Rafael Nadal threatened his leadership but was eliminated on Wednesday by Borna Coric<\/b>number 152 in the ATP, who this Thursday dropped the also Spanish Roberto Bautista 6-2 and 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Coric met Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime in the quarterfinals, who beat Italian Jannik Sinner 2-6, 7-6 (7\/1), 6-1 in a battle of promises.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n        FB.init({\n                appId : '162165018053926',\n            cookie     : true,\n            xfbml      : true,\n            version    : 'v8.0'\n        });\n        FB.AppEvents.logPageView();\n    };\n    (function(d, s, id){\n        var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n        if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n        js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n        js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cincinnati tournament, Masters 1000 in the men&#8217;s branch and WTA 1000 in the women&#8217;s, held all its round of 16 tiein which the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz beat the Croatian Marin Cilic and the Argentine Diego Schwartzman fell to the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas. 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