In the third game, Medvedev had a break point at 4:4, and in his two service games, he remained in the competition, and the tie break was possible. And the Russian won that, thus winning the fourth game.
The fourth game brought fewer long ball runs and more smooth serving games than before. With a 4:3 deficit, Zverev parried break points, and they reached the tie break again.
There was a little drama: Medvedev asked for a replay of a ball close to the line. The verdict would not have changed in the modern age, when electronic systems make decisions in real time instead of flesh-and-blood line judges. Zverev, on the other hand, objected to the chair judge why Medvedev was having problems, saying: he knows exactly that the ball was in.
In the tie break, everyone brought their service points until 4:4, but then Medvedev hit a double fault. The next three points were his, so he won the final game. True, this also required luck.
In the final set, Medvedev was able to break at 2:2, and Zverev received a warning during the game for hitting the net with his racket in anger.
In the continuation, the German could no longer gather himself, he made a lot of mistakes, Medvedev came back from a two-set deficit for the second time at this year’s Australian Open and reached the final, while the Olympic champion Zverev will still not be a Grand Slam winner.
Who will be the champion of the Australian Open: Medvedev or Sinner?
On Sunday, Sinner will compete in his first Grand Slam final, Medvedev his sixth, and this will be the first time that his opponent will not be Novak Djokovic or Rafael Nadal. The twenty-seven-year-old Russian won the US Open in 2021, but he already lost two finals in Melbourne. The twenty-two-year-old Sinner showed with his form at the end of last year that he will also compete in the most prestigious tournaments in tennis this year.
Whoever wins, it is certain that from Sunday Djokovic, born in 1987, will no longer be the youngest male champion of the Australian Open, but if Sinner wins, the generation of the 2000s would overtake the generation of the 1990s in Melbourne in the same way as last year Carlos Alcaraz did it with his victory at Wimbledon.
