
All week, Australia's James Duckworth has bucked the odds in Kazakhstan, but his progress towards just a second ATP Tour final tour was ended one match short by former world No.1 Daniil Medvedev.
Duckworth had rattled off five victories in seven days at the Almaty Open after progressing through qualifying and later knocking out the No.7 seed Gabriel Diallo, of Canada, and then defeating Italian No.3 seed – and world No.22 – Flavio Cobolli.