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INTRODUCTION

This is the final where Medvedev will take on Johnson and the question is can Johnson play like he did in previous two rounds to lift the trophy? Johnson is playing on his home ground but the bookmakers are giving the advantage to the Russian player Medvedev in this final.



MEDVEDEV D.

The Russian player justified his higher ranking in the semi finals against Japanese player T. Daniel. The match ended 6-1 and 6-1 in his favour and it took only 66 minutes to complete. It is hard to give a commentary about the match as Medvedev played his part as expected, while the Japanese player Daniel played poorly and showed no desire or determination in the match. Daniel's entire effort comes down to one break point around middle of first set, while everything else can just be forgotten entirely. Since it was the semi final and not the first or second round match, thus there was no excuse for his poor showing. So in terms of statistics it was entirely on the Russian player's side.



JOHNSON

After Johnson beat K. Edmund in the quarter finals, and then in the semi finals he defeated second seed P. Carreno-Busta. He won by 6-3, 6-4 and Johnson needed just a bit less than one hour and half to win. Despite the result looking like an easy win, it wwas in fact not as easy as it looked. That can be said in the second set where only one break was made. At the beginning of the match both players were nervous, but then P. Carreno-Busta allowed himself to lose two service games in a row. He managed to make one break but that was still not good enough to win the first set. In th esecond set the two players were equal opponents. Johnson managed to use the very few chances to make a break and that came in the 5th game which was enough for him to win.



PAST MEETINGS

This will be the fifth meeting between the two players. Medvedev had an upper hand in previous head-to-head as he won three of them. This season in Eastbourne, Johnson managed to defeat Medvedev 6-3, 6-4, but the two players met once more this season at the Masters in Indian Wells where Medvedev won 7-6, 6-4.