The questions that come to mind are these lack lustre sets or whole matches physically related ( is the knee still an issue? ) or mentally related ( certainly he has talked about addressing big match fall-aways with his previous coach ).

So very far off playing consistently near his top level. Very difficult to predict any Kyle match.

I haven't watched any of the match so can't tell how Thiem has played, but Medvedev has just beaten him by a similar scoreline, 3 and 1, so although Kyle probably won't take anything from that, and it doesn't make it any less emphathic, it just shows that when on it, Medvedev can be really really good. That's 7 straight set wins out of 8, against a lot of good players, and it was only a rare dialled in Kyrgios that got the better of him, in 2 tight TB sets.

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I mean Domi won a title at the weekend in Austria so he has had a pretty good few weeks too.

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Yeah, had a couple of good wins this week too. Shapo (in Montreal, which isn't easy), and then Cilic. You (or I) do get the impression that Medvedev is one of the few who could give the Big 3 a decent match more often than not.

Good match, I thought Chardy and Martin were looking too solid at the end of the second set but not a great Tb for them