{"id":427548,"date":"2023-02-25T13:58:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T18:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=427548"},"modified":"2023-02-25T14:05:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T19:05:15","slug":"medvedev-claims-17th-title-after-beating-murray-in-doha-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/medvedev-claims-17th-title-after-beating-murray-in-doha-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev claims 17th title after beating Murray in Doha final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Russia&#8217;s Daniil Medvedev maintained his winning roll after clinching the title at the Qatar Open on debut following a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Andy Murray 6-4, 6-4 in a final matchup of former No. 1s on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Very happy with another title. Tough final today against one of the best competitors in our sport <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andy_murray?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@andy_murray<\/a>. Nice to play in such great atmosphere tonight!  \ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AN0nyB3wW9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AN0nyB3wW9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniil Medvedev (@DaniilMedwed) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaniilMedwed\/status\/1629541209046695936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Third seed Medvedev built a 4-1 lead in the first set and a 3-1 lead in the second before finishing off the two-time Doha champ in one hour and 47 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian improved to 3-0 in his career against the 35-year-old Murray, who had played four straight three-set matches to reach the final.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to say how much I appreciated it today playing Andy,&#8221; said Medvedev in his on-court interview after winning his 17th singles title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yesterday I was in the gym working out and started to the do the last exercises when it was 5-4 40-0, 25 minutes later he was still on the tie-break and won it, crazy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today when I had a match point I was like &#8216;oh my god I have a match point against Andy in Doha, that&#8217;s not a good sign&#8217;, but I had to have a match point to win. I knew it wasn&#8217;t over until the last point with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev also won in Rotterdam last weekend and extended his winning streak to nine matches.<\/p>\n<div class=\"connatix-wrapper\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Daniil Medvedev maintained his winning roll after clinching the title at the Qatar Open on debut following a 6-4, 6-4 victory over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":427550,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17769,17539],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"He also won in Rotterdam last weekend","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\/427548"}],"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=427548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/427548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427548"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=427548"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=427548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}