Medvedev responds to jeers after downing home hero (VIDEO)

The Russian number one defeated Dominic Thiem at the Erste Bank Open in Austria

Daniil Medvedev proved too strong for Dominic Thiem as the Russian eased past his Austrian rival in straight sets in their round-of-16 meeting in Vienna on Thursday.

Medvedev saw off Thiem with a scoreline of 6-3 6-3 at the hard-court tournament at the Wiener Stadthalle in the Austrian capital – reacting to boos from the home crowd by giving a sarcastic ‘thumbs-up’ gesture after match point. 

After recently becoming a father for the first time when wife Daria gave birth to their daughter, Medvedev had said on the eve of the tournament in Vienna that he had experienced “a lot of emotions I thought that I was not able to feel.”

But the Russian world number four appeared fully focused on Thursday as he aims to finish the season strongly, converting three of the six break points he manufactured on the Thiem serve, while saving the solitary one he faced from the Austrian. 

"Merciless Medvedev marches on"