{"id":436120,"date":"2023-05-17T11:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436120"},"modified":"2023-05-17T11:39:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:39:53","slug":"rune-beats-djokovic-again-to-reach-rome-semis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rune-beats-djokovic-again-to-reach-rome-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rune beats Djokovic again to reach Rome semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-year-old Holger Rune recorded his second victory over Novak Djokovic in six months, beating the 22-time Grand Slam champion 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 Wednesday to reach the Italian Open semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Rune defeated Djokovic in the Paris Masters final in November. He made his opponent hit extra balls on points that Djokovic thought he had already finished off and managed to clinch the victory in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Djokovic didn\u2019t appear at his best physically early on and called for a trainer after holding for a 2-1 lead in the second set. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what the issue was but it appeared that Djokovic swallowed a pill that the trainer gave him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">RUTHLESS RUNE \ud83e\udd2f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/holgerrune2003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@holgerrune2003<\/a> knocks 6-time Champion Novak Djokovic out of Rome! <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\/8c74E8lIs0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/8c74E8lIs0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1658845058005647366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 17, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nWith Djokovic out of the draw, an 18-year streak of either him or Nadal playing in the Rome final ends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-year-old Holger Rune recorded his second victory over Novak Djokovic in six months, beating the 22-time Grand Slam champion 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":436121,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16741,19054,16740],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18753,8725,17855],"acf":{"announce":"The Danish player got his second victory over the world number one in six months","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\/436120"}],"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=436120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436123,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436120\/revisions\/436123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436120"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436120"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}