Adam Walton has notched the largest victory of his profession, outlasting Daniil Medvedev in three units to affix Alexei Popyrin within the third spherical of Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, USA, 11 August 2025 | Matt Trollope
Adam Walton recovered from a set right down to beat former world No.1 and 2019 champion Daniil Medvedev to succeed in the final 32 on the Cincinnati Open.
In his main-draw debut on the Masters 1000 occasion, Walton rebounded to win 6-7(0) 6-4 6-1, becoming a member of fellow Australian Alexei Popyrin within the third spherical.
Earlier on Sunday in Cincinnati, twenty first seed Popyrin – contemporary off his quarterfinal run on the Toronto Masters – beat Spanish qualifier Martin Landaluce in straight units to arrange a gathering with Andrey Rublev.
One other Aussie, Alex de Minaur, was unable to affix them, overpowered by the ever-dangerous American Reilly Opelka, who completed the match with 36 winners to 6.
However the Australian story of the day belonged to Walton, who rises to world No.80 within the ATP stay rankings after profitable six of his previous eight matches.
It’s the second spectacular Masters outcome this season for the 26-year-old, who charged to the fourth spherical in Miami in March.
World No.15 Medvedev is by far the highest-ranked opponent Walton has defeated, marking his first profession win over a top-50 participant.
He did so after staring defeat within the face within the first spherical in opposition to Mariano Navone; the Argentine led by a set and 5-3, and twice served for the match, earlier than succumbing.
It was the same story in opposition to Medvedev for Walton, who fell behind a set and was compelled to save lots of three break factors in a dramatic fifth recreation of the second set – it prolonged to eight deuces – earlier than an important maintain.
He then broke Medvedev within the closing recreation of the second set to drive a 3rd, and finally gained eight of the final 9 video games to prevail, reserving a third-round assembly with No.22 seed Jiri Lehecka.
Popyrin, in the meantime, takes a profitable 2-1 head-to-head report into his match in opposition to Rublev, having gained each their conferences at Masters occasions in 2024.
He has gained 4 of his previous 5 matches and made his top-20 debut in final week’s rankings, rising to world No.19.
On the ladies’s facet, Maya Joint will try to proceed her spectacular run when she takes on twelfth seed Ekaterina Alexandrova on Monday.
Having reached the third spherical, that is already the most effective WTA 1000 results of the 19-year-old Aussie’s profession.
On Sunday, her compatriots Kimberly Birrell, Ajla Tomljanovic and Daria Kasatkina fell within the second spherical of the mixed WTA/ATP 1000 occasion.
