{"id":428095,"date":"2023-03-01T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428095"},"modified":"2023-03-01T15:41:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:41:42","slug":"zverev-and-rublev-reached-the-quarter-finals-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/zverev-and-rublev-reached-the-quarter-finals-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Zverev and Rublev reach quarter-finals in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s Alexander Zverev and Russia&#8217;s Andrey Rublev advanced to the quarter-finals of the ATP 500 Series tournament in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympic champion Zverev, who is seeded at number 7, won 7:5, 6:4 over the Australian Christopher O&#8217;Connell in exactly 80 minutes of play. He hit 11 aces in the match and didn&#8217;t concede a single break, while also hitting 30 winners.<\/p>\n<p>Andrey Rublev, who is number 2 seeded, managed a small miracle saving five consecutive match points in the second set of the match with the Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and eventually won it 1:6, 7:6(6), 7:6(3).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Save 5 match points in a row? Rublev sorts it in the second set tiebreak \ud83d\ude2e\u200d\ud83d\udca8\u2070<br \/>The defending champion advances in Dubai, taking the win against Davidovich Fokina after a three set thriller \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DDFTennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ddftennis<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DDFTennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DDFTennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dXsWeRbux6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/dXsWeRbux6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1630915352396804097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s Alexander Zverev and Russia&#8217;s Andrey Rublev advanced to the quarter-finals of the ATP 500 Series tournament in Dubai. The Olympic champion Zverev, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":428097,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16760,17869],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[17870,17871],"acf":{"announce":"The Russian saved five match points and made a great comeback against Alejandro Davidovich","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\/428095"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428095"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428095"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}