Players normally meet each other for the first time while in battle on-court or in locker rooms around the world, but in the third round of the Madrid Open two online friends will stare each other down after years of playing PlayStation on the same side. On Saturday, Daniil Medvedev reached the third round with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Andrea Vavassori and he will face Alexander Shevchenko next.
“I know him really well,” said Medvedev, the second seed. “It’s funny because before I knew him in real life, we played PlayStation together with our friends for six years in the same team, the same game.”
