Seyboth Wild eliminates Medvedev in the 1st round of the French Open

Thiago Seyboth Wild, world number 172, beat world number 2, Daniil Medvedev, in 5 sets after 4 hours and 15 minutes on the court.

Twists and turns 🎢

Qualifier Thiago Seyboth Wild makes an emphatic entrance to his first #RolandGarros main draw appearance, knocking out No.2 seed Medvedev 7-6(5), 6-7(6), 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. pic.twitter.com/awnQzXHbFs

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The Brazilian won the 1^st set after a tiebreak 7-6 (5) and had a great chance to win the 2^nd set after a tiebreak also, but the Russian bounced back and won 7-6 (6) to tie the match 1:1 sets.

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Medvedev won easily 6-2 in the 3^rd set, and when everyone expected him to close the clash in 4 sets, Thiago again played better than Daniil in the 4^th and the 5^th set to triumph in them – 6-3 and 6-4 for the greatest victory in his career so far.

A lot was expected from Medvedev after he won the Rome Masters a few days ago, but he will need to leave Paris.

Seyboth Wild will play in the 2^nd round of the Roland-Garros against the winner from Halys and Pella.

2 – Thiago Seyboth Wild is only the second Brazilian male to defeat a top-two ranked opponent at a Grand Slam event in the Open Era after Gustavo Kuerten, who achieved it twice – Safin (US Open 2002) and Federer (#RolandGarros 2004). Big.@rolandgarros @atptour @ATPMediaInfo pic.twitter.com/S0ySQ3yFNn

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