Australian Open: Tempers soar as Daniil Medvedev enters quarters

Daniil Medvedev during his fourth-round win over Maxime Cressy yesterday. Pic/AFP

An annoyed Daniil Medvedev lost his cool in the heat of a tetchy four-set battle with big-serving American Maxime Cressy to reach the quarter-finals at the Australian Open on Monday.

The Russian second seed took a medical timeout to have his lower back massaged and had some heated exchanges with the chair umpire before seeing out a 6-2, 7-6, 6-7, 7-5 win in 3hr 30min on Margaret Court Arena.

It is Medvedev's second straight quarter-final appearance in Melbourne where he will face Canada's ninth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime, who got past former finalist Marin Cilic of Croatia 2-6, 7-6, 6-2, 7-6.

"I was quite mad today because of a few things. I'm working on myself, that's why I managed to win and still kept my composure, as much as I could, because sometimes I go much crazier than I did today," Medvedev said. "I just felt a little bit not perfect today for a few reasons. I was annoyed with the day."

Meanwhile, Italy's 11th seed Jannick Sinner proved too strong for Alex De Minaur to end Australia's last remaining hope in the men's singles on Monday. Sinner moved into the quarter-finals with a 7-6 (7/3), 6-3, 6-4 win in 2hr 35 min over the 32nd seed De Minaur.

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