{"id":428254,"date":"2023-03-03T11:06:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T16:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428254"},"modified":"2023-03-03T11:06:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T16:06:31","slug":"rublev-reaches-dubai-final-after-first-win-over-zverev","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rublev-reaches-dubai-final-after-first-win-over-zverev\/","title":{"rendered":"Rublev reaches Dubai final after first win over Zverev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Andrey Rublev produced a brilliant performance to defeat Germany&#8217;s Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-6 to reach the final of the Dubai Open.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WHAT. A. MATCH.<\/p>\n<p>Rublev secures the win after a tense tiebreak, taking the match in two sets against Zverev \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>Final \ud83d\udc49 incoming\u2026 <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\/fznGfRYmq0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fznGfRYmq0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1631677404354605057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Russian, beaten in all five of their previous matches, held his nerve at the end, finally securing the win on his sixth match point and set up a final against either world No 1 Novak Djokovic or former No 1 Daniil Medvedev.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev, \u043e\u043d his way back to full confidence after six months out through injury, had never even dropped a set in their five previous battles and the Russian had only made it to a tiebreak once.<\/p>\n<p>But Rublev sensed his chance today. He stayed strong, clinching victory on his sixth match point, having saved a set point of his own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Andrey Rublev produced a brilliant performance to defeat Germany&#8217;s Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-6 to reach the final of the Dubai Open. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428255,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16760,17869,17539,16740],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Russian will play either world No 1 Djokovic or ex-No 1 Medvedev in the final","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\/428254"}],"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=428254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428254"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428254"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}