{"id":415855,"date":"2023-02-17T13:12:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415855"},"modified":"2023-02-17T13:13:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:13:57","slug":"fiery-medvedev-dismantles-auger-aliassime-to-set-up-dimitrov-clash","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fiery-medvedev-dismantles-auger-aliassime-to-set-up-dimitrov-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiery Medvedev dismantles Auger-Aliassime to set up Dimitrov clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-body__content__17Yit paywall-article\">\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Russian Daniil Medvedev came out all guns blazing, past defending champion Auger-Aliassime of Canada in a 6-2, 6-4 victory on Friday to book his spot in the semi-finals of the 2023 Rotterdam Open.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Medvedev continued his perfect record against the Canadian \u2013 extending it to five wins out of five.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">It is the first time they have played each other since the 2022 Australian Open, when Medvedev came back from two sets down to secure victory.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">The Russian will face Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, who defeated Australia&#8217;s Alex De Minaur 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (6) earlier on Friday to reach his third semi-final in Rotterdam.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dominant once again. \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Daniil Medvedev is showing the kind of form that helped him reach the \ud83d\udd1d of the rankings \ud83c\udfd4\ufe0f last year. <\/p>\n<p>The current world No. 1\ufe0f\u20e31\ufe0f\u20e3 has taken out defending champion Felix Auger-Aliassime: 6-2 6-4. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/abnamroopen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#abnamroopen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sJwwqfEXoG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sJwwqfEXoG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABN AMRO Open (@abnamroopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abnamroopen\/status\/1626619736539660303?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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Daniil Medvedev came out all guns blazing, past defending champion Auger-Aliassime of Canada in a 6-2, 6-4 victory on Friday to book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415856,"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":"The Russian extended his perfect record against the Canadian","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\/415855"}],"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=415855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415855"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415855"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}