 Daniel Medvedev vs. Andre Rublev is the third quarterfinal for the men's US Open for 2023. And both players have fought to get to this stage. Rublev entered the tournament as the number 8 seed and will take on Kazoo in the first round. This was no problem getting through in straights 6-4-7-6-6-1. In the second round he take on Malfice and after dropping the third set would run away with it 6-4-6-3-3-6-6-1. In the third round he take on Rindanish who had just beaten Baratini the previous round and after dropping the first set Rublev would fight back to win 3-6-6-3-6-1-7-5. In the fourth round he take on Jack Draper who was having sort of a resurgence this week. And after splitting the first two sets Rublev would eventually get through in 4-6-3-3-6-6-6-4 to advance to another quarterfinal of the slam. Medvedev entered the tournament as the number 3 seed and will take on Balash in the first round. This is no problem getting through in straights 6-1-6-1-6-1. In the second round he take on O'Connell and after dropping the third set would run away with it in the fourth 6-2-6-2-6-7-6-2. In the third round he take on Baez and after a close third set Medvedev would get through in straights 6-2-6-2-7-6. In the fourth round he take on Demonor a man he'd lost to the two previous meetings including one a couple of weeks ago in Canada and after dropping the first set Medvedev would fight back to win 2-6-6-4-6-1-6-2 to advance to the quarterfinals. These two are played seven times before with Medvedev leading the head to head 5-2 but Rublev has won two of their last three matches including an epic match at the end of last year in the ATP finals. However Medvedev did win their only meeting this year pretty convincingly. If Rublev is going to win this one he needs to keep his head as he always needs to win these matches but also he needs to play well on the ground strokes. Try and move Medvedev around and also use variety. We've seen so many players pick Medvedev off at the net and Demonor did that really well in the first set unfortunately couldn't keep it going. So Rublev can volley he's got to come to the net and use that to his advantage. If Medvedev is going to win this one he needs to serve well and play well on the ground strokes and really drag these rallies out. He actually did really well against Demonor once the first set was over from the baseline just going baseline to baseline dragging the rallies out 30 shot rallies that's how he's going to frustrate Rublev into maybe hitting errors. Such a fun matchup these guys are good friends have played for so long they probably played more matches than just this ATP as well juniors as well but I've got to go with Medvedev in this one. I feel like beating Medvedev at the slam for Rublev might be won too many and he hasn't had the quarterfinals a lot. I don't know if the semi-finals are there for him this year I feel like Medvedev in four but let me know down in the comments below who's making the semi-finals.