The meeting lasted 2 hours 45 minutes and ended with a score of 6: 3, 7: 5, 5: 7, 6: 3 in favor of a 23-year-old Russian tennis player.
Medvedev’s next opponent will be either Spaniard Feliciano Lopez or Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka.
Earlier it was reported that Margarita Gasparyan failed to get into the third round of the US Open.