On April 30, the fourth round of the Madrid Masters was played ATP1000, and No. 3 seed Dmitry Medvedev faced the challenge of No. 17 seed Bublik. In this game, Mei defeated his opponent in straight sets, rewriting the battle record between the two sides to 7-0 and successfully breaking into the quarterfinals of Madrid.
In the first set, Medvedev was broken in the fifth game, and he quickly broke back in the sixth game. After that, both sides held their serves, and the match was dragged into a tie-break. In the tie-break, Medvedev scored six points in a row to get match point 6-0 and won the first set tie-break 7-3.
In the second set, Medvedev broke serve twice in the first and third games to take a 4-0 lead. In the 8th game, Medvedev's serve was broken by his opponent, and in the 10th game, Mei did not waste another opportunity to win the game on serve, and successfully held serve and won the second set 6-4.
In a match that lasted one hour and 44 minutes, Medvedev defeated 17th seed Bublik 7-6(3), 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals of the Madrid Masters for the first time. With his performance in Madrid, Medvedev became the 10th active player to reach the quarterfinals of the Masters.