Adam Walton has achieved the biggest victory of his career, where Daniil Medvedev is surpassed in three sets to join Alexei Pofyrin in the third round of Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, US, August 11, 2025 | Matt Trollope
Adam Walton recovered from a set to beat former World No.1 and 2019 champion Daniil Medvedev to reach the last 32 in the Cincinnati Open.
In his debut in the Hoofdlood at the Masters 1000 event, Walton recovered to win 6-7 (0) 6-4 6-1 and become a member of fellow Australian Alexei Popyrin in the third round.
Earlier on Sunday in Cincinnati, the 21st seed popyrin – Vers defeated his quarter -final run at the Toronto Masters – the Spanish qualification Martin Landaluce in straight sets to set up a meeting with Andrey Rublev.
Another Aussie, Alex de Minaur, could not join them, overwhelmed by the ever -reinforced American Reilly Opelka, who finished the competition with 36 winners to six.
But the Australian story of the day was Van Walton, who comes to World No.80 in the ATP Live Rankings after winning six of his last eight games.
It is the second impressive Masters result this season for the 26-year-old, who arrived in Miami to the fourth round in Miami in March.
World No.15 Medvedev is by far the highest ranked opponent who defeated Walton and marked his first career victory on a top 50 player.
He did this after staring the defeat in the face in the first round against Mariano Navone; The Argentinian led by a set and 5-3, and served twice before the competition, before he collapses.
It was a similar story against Medvedev for Walton, who fell behind a set and was forced to save three breaking points in a dramatic fifth game of the second set – it extended to eight Deuses – for a crucial hold.
He then broke Medvedev in the last match of the second set to force a third, and eventually won eight of the last nine games to prevail, booking a third round meeting with no. 22 Seed Jiri Lehecka.
In the meantime, Popyrin is taking a winning 2-1 right-to-head record in his match against Rublev, after they won both meetings at Masters events in 2024.
He has won four of his last five games and made his top 20 debut in last week’s ranking, rising to World No.19.
On the women’s side, Maya Joint will try to continue her impressive run when she will take on a 12th Seed Ekaterina Alexandrova on Monday.
After reaching the third round, this is already the best WTA 1000 result of the 19-year-old Aussie’s career.
On Sunday her countrymen Kimberly Birrell, Ajla Tomljanovic and Daria Kasatkina fell in the second round of the combined WTA/ATP 1000 event.
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