MOSCOW, January 22, Sergey Pogrebnyak. Olympic champion, winner of two Bolshoi tournaments helmet Yevgeny Kafelnikov said that he considers the defeat of Russian tennis player Andrei Rublev in the third round of the Australian Open a sensation. On Saturday, Rublev lost to Croatian Martin Cilic with a score of 5:7, 6:7, 6:3, 3:6. Only one representative of Russia remained in the men's tournament bracket — Daniil Medvedev. «The unexpected defeat of Rublev, I am upset by his performance in this tournament. We all expected more from him, and he himself could have achieved more. But we have what we have. Of course, losing to Cilic is a sensation, when the world No. 6 loses to a player who hasn't been in the top positions for a long time… We only have one player out of four who made it to the second week of the tournament, which is not very good. three of our guys will get there. From this point of view, the performance of our tennis players can be called unsuccessful, «said Kafelnikov. «Daniil can take full responsibility and achieve results in Australia. him to be one of the best in the world,» Kafelnikov added.
