Daniil dumped out!

Daniil Medvedev suffered a fourset loss to Australiarsquos Alex de Minaur in the French Open fourth round on Monday as his disappointing record at Roland Garros continued The Russian fifth seed a former US Open champion and sixtime Grand Slam finalist started strongly but slipped to a 46 62 61 63 defeatDe Minaur will face either Alexander Zverev or Holger Rune in his second Slam quarterfinal and first since the 2020 US OpenItalyrsquos Jannik Sinner celebrates his victory over Corentin Moutet of France in Paris yesterdayMedvedevrsquos best performance in the French Open remains a quarterfinal run in 2021 while he has also lost in the first round in five of his eight appearances ldquoAlex played betterrdquo admitted Medvedev who doubledfaulted on match pointldquoTo be honest Irsquom disappointed to lose but I donrsquot have anything to tell myself in a tough way like I was not good attitude today or I was not fighting till the end I did all of this He played betterrdquo he addedAlexrsquos maiden Round 3 entryDe Minaur had never got past the second round at the tournament before this year winning just three of 10 matches But he has improved on clay this season also reaching a first Masters quarterfinal on the surface in Monte CarloMeanwhile Second seed Jannik Sinner dropped his first set of the tournament but recovered to beat Corentin Moutet 26 63 62 61 to reach the French Open quarterfinalsThe 79thranked Moutet the last Frenchman left in the draw rattled off the opening five games of the match before Sinner wrested back control and eased to a fourset victory ldquoIt was very tough for me I think he played very very well in the first set so I had to adjust a little bitrdquo said SinnerPaolini powers throughIn a womenrsquos match Italyrsquos Jasmine Paolini reached her first Grand Slam quarterfinal with a 46 60 61 win over unseeded Russian Elina Avanesyan at the French OpenFourth seed Elena Rybakina overpowered Elina Svitolina with a straightsets victory to reach the French Open quarterfinals for the second time The Kazakh eased to a 64 63 victory over Ukrainersquos Svitolina after just 69 minutesRussian teenager Mirra Andreeva became the youngest player to reach the womenrsquos quarterfinals at the French Open since 2005 by defeating home hope Varvara Gracheva Andreeva downed Gracheva 75 62 to book a lasteight spot at a Grand Slam for the first timeAged 17 and 27 days she is the youngest female player to make the quarters since Bulgarian Sesil Karatantcheva achieved the feat at 15This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever