{"id":415920,"date":"2023-02-18T11:46:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T16:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415920"},"modified":"2023-02-18T11:46:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T16:46:05","slug":"unstoppable-medvedev-brushes-aside-dimitrov-to-reach-rotterdam-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/unstoppable-medvedev-brushes-aside-dimitrov-to-reach-rotterdam-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Unstoppable Medvedev brushes aside Dimitrov to reach Rotterdam final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixth seed Daniil Medvedev brushed aside Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 6-1, 6-2 in 82 minutes to reach the final at the indoor hard-court tournament in Rotterdam for the first time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8WARNING: There seems to be an unstoppable train thundering through. \ud83d\ude84 <\/p>\n<p>Medvedev puts up another exceptional performance at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/abnamroopen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#abnamroopen<\/a> to defeat Dimitrov: 6-1 6-2. \ud83c\udf1f<\/p>\n<p>The former world No.1\ufe0f\u20e3 will play his first final in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rotterdamahoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@rotterdamahoy<\/a> on Sunday. \ud83d\ude4c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hWLFf443xZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hWLFf443xZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABN AMRO Open (@abnamroopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/abnamroopen\/status\/1626968390530220035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an amazing match,\u201d said Medvedev. \u201cThe score [looks] easy, but the match was not. I felt physically like I was playing five sets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[There were] some amazing rallies. It was 2-2, 0\/40 for him in the second [set], so [I am happy] to manage to win it 6-2, just raise my level a little bit on serve and manage to keep consistent\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He made a few more errors than he needed to make, and I\u2019m happy with my level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Russian world No. 11 was typically relentless from the baseline and converted six of 13 break points to reach his first tour-level championship match since he claimed the title in Vienna last October.<\/p>\n<p>A match featuring several marathon exchanges threatened to become more complicated for Medvedev when Dimitrov recovered from 0-2 in the second set to earn three break points at 2-2, 0\/40.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev shut any potential comeback down in style, however, dropping just four more points in the match en route to increasing his ATP Head2Head series lead against Dimitrov to 5-2.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian will play against Jannik Siner or home wild card in his 28th tour-level championship match on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixth seed Daniil Medvedev brushed aside Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 6-1, 6-2 in 82 minutes to reach the final at the indoor hard-court tournament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415921,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17539,17570,17540],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"\u201cIt was an amazing match,\u201d the Russian said afterwards   in his 28th tour-level championship match on Sunday","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\/415920"}],"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=415920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415920"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415920"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}