{"id":415819,"date":"2023-02-17T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T14:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415819"},"modified":"2023-02-17T13:03:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:03:55","slug":"bulgarian-dimitrov-downs-de-minaur-to-reach-rotterdam-semis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bulgarian-dimitrov-downs-de-minaur-to-reach-rotterdam-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgarian Dimitrov downs De Minaur to reach Rotterdam semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov delivered another impressive performance to outclass Australia&#8217;s Alex De Minaur 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (6) on Friday and reach the semi-finals of the 2023 Rotterdam Open.<\/p>\n<p>The world number 28, who broke his opponent three times in the first set and bounced back from a 6-3 loss in the second to break De Minaur one more time in the third, needed two hours and 34 minutes to progress to the last four.<\/p>\n<p>Dimitrov, who saved two match points, served six aces to De Minaur\u2019s four as the Australian also served six double faults during the energy-sapping match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SEMIFINALS NO. 43 FOR GRISHA! \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddec<\/p>\n<p>Grigor Dimitrov saves 2 MPs and prevails on Alex De Minaur to reach his 43rd semifinals on Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after ten attempts in a row, he will try to reach his first ATP final since Rotterdam 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eiLJ6yOobt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eiLJ6yOobt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Relevant Tennis (@RelevantTennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RelevantTennis\/status\/1626593417961820160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Dimitrov defeated Russian Aslan Karatsev and Poland&#8217;s fifth seed Hubert Hurkacz in the previous rounds without losing a set.<\/p>\n<p>He will face Canada&#8217;s defending champion Felix Auger-Aliassime or Russia&#8217;s Daniil Medvedev in tomorrow&#8217;s semifinal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov delivered another impressive performance to outclass Australia&#8217;s Alex De Minaur 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (6) on Friday and reach the semi-finals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415820,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17539,16944,17570,17540],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He will play Auger-Aliassime or Medvedev in tomorrow's semifinal","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415819"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415819"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}