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MELBOURNE: World number two and title favourite Daniil Medvedev won over the Australian Open crowd on Saturday as the Russian “villain” eased into the last 16 along with Stefanos Tsitsipas. After the drama of Friday, when defending champion Naomi Osaka exited Melbourne in the third round, the leading women’s seeds were also mostly untroubled on day six. Second seed Aryna …

TORONTO: Top seed Daniil Medvedev powered through a rough patch to beat James Duckworth 6-2, 6-4 on Thursday and reach the quarter-finals of the ATP Toronto Masters. Medvedev finished with 10 aces as he reached his eighth quarter-final at the Masters level on the way into a quarter-final against Pole Hubert Hurkacz, who scored a 6-7 (7-9), 6-4, 6-4 win …

MIAMI: Daniil Medvedev celebrated his rise to second in the world with a seamless entry into the Miami Open on Friday, trouncing Taiwan’s Lu Yen-Hsun in less than an hour. Russia’s Medvedev needed just 56 minutes to subdue Lu 6-2, 6-2, firing nine aces with just one double fault as he advanced to a third-round meeting with Australian Alexei Popyrin, …