Portugal’s hunt for a first Grand Slam quarter-final continues

Russian Daniil Medvedev, the No 5 seed, defeated Portugal’s Nuno Borges 6-0, 6-1, 6-3 at the US Open in New York on Monday evening.

In doing so, Medvedev extended Portugal’s hunt for a maiden Grand Slam quater-final.

The nation has now made the round of 16 on four occasions, with Joao Sousa reaching the fourth round at the 2018 US Open and 2019 Wimbledon, while Borges exited at that stage earlier this year in the Australian Open as well.

Medvedev, ranked No 5, will play the winner of the match between Italian Jannik Sinner, the top seed, and American Tommy Paul, the No 14 seed, next.

The Russian won against Serb Dusan Lajovic (6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1), Hungarian Fabian Marozsan (6-3, 6-2, 7-6 (5)) and Italian Flavio Cobolli, the No 31 seed (6-3, 6-4, 6-3) earlier in the tournament.

In the previous rounds of the US Open, Borges, ranked No 34, defeated Argentinian Federico Coria (6-2, 6-4, 6-1), Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis (6-4, 7-5, 7-5) and Jakub Mensik (6-7 (5), 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-0).

New York (Grand Slam), other last 16 results (USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, hard, USD 75.000.000, most recent results first):

• Jannik Sinner vs. Tommy Paul
• Alex De Minaur vs. Jordan Thompson
• Jack Draper (25) beat Tomas Machac: 6-3, 6-1, 6-2
• Frances Tiafoe (20) beat Alexei Popyrin (28): 6-4, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-3
• Alexander Zverev (4) beat Brandon Nakashima: 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2
• Taylor Fritz (12) beat Casper Ruud (8): 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2
• Grigor Dimitrov (9) beat Andrey Rublev (6): 6-3, 7-6 (3), 1-6, 3-6, 6-3