{"id":436328,"date":"2023-05-20T10:16:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T14:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436328"},"modified":"2023-05-20T10:16:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T14:16:04","slug":"rune-eliminates-ruud-and-is-the-italian-open-1st-finalist","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rune-eliminates-ruud-and-is-the-italian-open-1st-finalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Rune eliminates Ruud and is the Italian Open 1st finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holger Rune, world number 7, defeated 2-1 sets 6-7, 6-4, 6-2 Casper Ruud, world number 4, and reached the Rome Masters final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc07\ud835\udc04 \ud835\udc11\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc15\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc13.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd25 Rune completes an heroic comeback against Ruud to conquer a spot in his first Rome final!<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\/Reale_Mutua?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Reale_Mutua<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/YourNextLevel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#YourNextLevel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fWgzUiiOf0\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fWgzUiiOf0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Internazionali BNL d&#8217;Italia (@InteBNLdItalia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InteBNLdItalia\/status\/1659920166447116296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After no breaks in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set, the Norwegian player won the set after a tiebreak 7-2. However, the Danish player got back and won the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set after breaking his opponent&#8217;s serve twice and losing his serve only once.<\/p>\n<p>Rune was the better player in the deciding set, and after converting 2 break points to close the set 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Holger won his 1<sup>st<\/sup> clash against Ruud as they played 4 matches before that, all on clay, and Casper triumphed in all of them.<\/p>\n<p>The Danish, who also eliminated world number 1 Novak Djokovic, will face in the final Medvedev or Tsitsipas.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Holger Rune on beating Ruud: \u201cI played some of my best tennis in a period of the matches. 1st against Novak, then Casper. Such difficult players to play, I had to find my best tennis. I actually didn\u2019t find it today, only at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BOKGHqyduF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BOKGHqyduF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1659924780316004352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 20, 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>Holger Rune, world number 7, defeated 2-1 sets 6-7, 6-4, 6-2 Casper Ruud, world number 4, and reached the Rome Masters final. \ud835\udc13\ud835\udc07\ud835\udc04 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":436329,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16863,16741,19224,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[17898,18753,19225,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Holger won the \u00bd final 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\/436328"}],"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=436328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436328"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436328"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}