{"id":435406,"date":"2023-05-12T09:27:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435406"},"modified":"2023-05-12T08:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T12:57:31","slug":"popyrin-eliminates-auger-aliassime-in-the-2nd-round-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/popyrin-eliminates-auger-aliassime-in-the-2nd-round-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Popyrin eliminates Auger-Aliassime in the 2nd round in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexei Popyrin won the marathon match against Felix Auger-Aliassime from the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round in Rome Masters after 3 hours and 18 minutes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffb \ud835\udc07\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1e \ud835\udc22\ud835\udc2c \ud835\udc32\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc2b \ud835\udc11\ud835\udfd1\ud835\udfd0 \ud835\udc00\ud835\udc25\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc31\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc22<\/p>\n<p>A remarkable performance from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexeiPopyrin99?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AlexeiPopyrin99<\/a> who takes out the no.10 seed Auger-Aliassime \ud83d\udca5<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/YourNextLevel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#YourNextLevel<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reale_Mutua?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Reale_Mutua<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2AEFpHxWK8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2AEFpHxWK8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia (@InteBNLdItalia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InteBNLdItalia\/status\/1656999167204417538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alexei won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set 6-4 after converting 2 break points from 8 chances.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian bounced back with a 6-4 win in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set after winning his only breaking point and saving 2 and didn&#8217;t allow his opponent to break him.<\/p>\n<p>In the decisive 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set, world number 77 Popyrin broke Auger-Aliassime&#8217;s serve as he was serving to lead 5-4, and then the Australian closed the match. Felix, world number 10, has no break points in the final set.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">3 &#8211; Alexei Popyrin has claimed his third top-10 win of 2023. Popyrin is now the only player ranked outside the ATP&#8217;s top 20 with three wins against top-10 ranked opponents this year. Upsetter.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IBI23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IBI23<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InteBNLdItalia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@InteBNLdItalia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@atptour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATPMediaInfo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ATPMediaInfo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8tEYVJfMgA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8tEYVJfMgA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1657001204843679744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Popyrin and Auger-Aliassime faced earlier this year in Adelaide, and the Australian beat him there too.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Three hours 17 minutes \ud83d\ude28<\/p>\n<p>The moment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexeiPopyrin99?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AlexeiPopyrin99<\/a> secured a big win over No.10 seed Auger-Aliassime&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IBI23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IBI23<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DZoH5ayMMw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/DZoH5ayMMw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1657005547596685312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12, 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>Alexei Popyrin won the marathon match against Felix Auger-Aliassime from the 2nd round in Rome Masters after 3 hours and 18 minutes. \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":435408,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16944,19224,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[19293,18443,19225,18071],"acf":{"announce":"The Australian beat his opponent in 3 sets.","video":["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\/435406"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435407,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435406\/revisions\/435407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435406"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435406"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}