It’s the fifth time up to now six years that Medvedev has reached the final eight at Flushing Meadows.
The fifth seed was damaged simply as soon as within the match, as he went down 2-1 within the third set, earlier than play was delayed after a fireplace alarm went off within the constructing the place the digital line calling group is.
The US Open doesn’t have line judges, with all of the calls made by the Hawkeye expertise.
The constructing was evacuated, resulting in a short pause in play, earlier than fifth seed Medvedev instantly broke again and received 5 of the subsequent six video games to advance.
Medvedev was interviewed on courtroom afterwards by Nick Kyrgios, who was the final participant to beat him earlier than the quarter-final stage in New York.
“The final time I misplaced within the fourth spherical was towards you, proper? Good recollections,” the 28-year-old joked.
“I attempt to work laborious. Generally I do, generally I don’t.
“I’ve the mentality that if the opposite man practises greater than me, I’ve much less probabilities to win, and I need to win on a regular basis.”
Britain’s Jack Draper earlier superior with an impressive straight-sets victory over Tomas Machac to achieve his first Grand Slam quarter-final.
He’ll play tenth seed Alex de Minaur within the subsequent spherical after the Australian beat compatriot Jordan Thompson 6-0 3-6 6-3 7-5.
After De Minaur breezed by the opening set in simply 29 minutes with out dropping a sport, Thompson hit again to take the second and make sure the the rest of the match was much more intently contested.
De Minaur secured the win after a topsy-turvy fourth set to change into the primary Australian man since Leyton Hewitt in 2004 to achieve three consecutive Grand Slam quarter-finals.
