Daniil Medvedev battles past Britain's Arthur Fery to reach second round of 2023 Wimbledon, Taylor Fritz through

Daniil Medvedev reached the second round of Wimbledon after he battled past unseeded Brit Arthur Fery on Wednesday afternoon in straight sets, 7-5 6-4 6-3. The win was Medvedev's 60th at Grand Slam events. Ad The third seed will next play Adrian Mannarino, who beat Medvedev on grass last month, or Alexander Shevchenko.

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Medvedev made a blistering return to court and broke Fery in the opening game after the resumption. The world No.3 served out to take the opening set 7-5. Fery fought valiantly in the second and having gone a break down, he broke Medvedev to love to level things at 4-4.

However, Medvedev ruthlessly broke straight back before serving out to move a set away from progressing. Things were pretty even when Medevedev was at 2-2, and he started to get frustrated with his own efforts, complaining to his team on the sidelines as he missed the chance to break with a couple of opportunities before eventually succeeding. Murray claims he is 'playing well enough' to beat most players at Wimbledon Federer: I was 'truly dreading' retirement, but it turned out to be 'beautiful' Burrage falls to Kasatkina defeat in second round Medvedev then went 4-2 clear as he held his serve, and he fired in a ruthless return to a drop shot form Fery as he threatened to break once again, and as he continued to dominate he left Fery serving to stay in the match.