It’s the fifth time prior 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 gained 5 of the subsequent six video games to advance.
Medvedev was interviewed on court docket 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 reminiscences,” the 28-year-old joked.
“I attempt to work onerous. Typically I do, generally I don’t.
“I’ve the mentality that if the opposite man practises greater than me, I’ve much less possibilities to win, and I wish to win on a regular basis.”
Britain’s Jack Draper earlier superior with a powerful 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 way of the opening set in simply 29 minutes with out shedding a recreation, 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.
