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Nick Kyrgios has continued his blazing run of great form with a rollicking three-set victory over world No.1 Daniil Medvedev in Montreal.
Australia's Wimbledon runner-up wore down Medvedev 6-7 (2-7) 6-4 6-2 in a sapping second-round encounter played in searing heat and humidity.
After losing the opening set in a tiebreaker, Kyrgios had to dig deep and turned the match around with one incredible backhand pass to break Medvedev in the sixth game of the deciding set.
He broke the dispirited Russian for a second straight service game before closing out the match to love after exactly two hours.
Kyrgios sent his ill mother Norlaila - who is currently in hospital - a heartfelt message straight after his comeback victory
The three-set win is one of the best in Kyrgios' career and follows hot on the heels of his victory at the Citi Open in Washington DC earlier in the week
The stirring victory was Kyrgios's third from four meetings with Medvedev, 14th win from past 15 matches and second ever over a world No.1 - eight years after conquering Rafael Nadal on his Wimbledon debut as a teenager.
The Aussie showed his thoughts are with his sick mother Norlaila, who is ill in hospital, when he wrote 'Be strong Ma' on a TV camera after the win.
'It's hard because even travelling now, my mum is in hospital at the moment, my dad hasn't been very well, my brother just had a baby and I don't get to be there with my family when normal people would like to be with them,' Kyrgios said.
'It's hard being from Australia because we can't travel back and forth. There's a lot of things people don't see. They only see me winning, losing, throwing a racquet, doing those things. They don't really understand the challenges that I face or what people on tour face, what's going on in their personal lives.'
'I've had some success against him in the past and he's
