{"id":436983,"date":"2023-05-30T12:04:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436983"},"modified":"2023-05-30T12:04:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:04:35","slug":"seyboth-wild-eliminates-medvedev-in-the-1st-round-of-the-french-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/seyboth-wild-eliminates-medvedev-in-the-1st-round-of-the-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Seyboth Wild eliminates Medvedev in the 1st round of the French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thiago Seyboth Wild, world number 172, beat world number 2, Daniil Medvedev, in 5 sets after 4 hours and 15 minutes on the court.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Twists and turns \ud83c\udfa2<\/p>\n<p>Qualifier Thiago Seyboth Wild makes an emphatic entrance to his first <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolandGarros?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolandGarros<\/a> main draw appearance, knocking out No.2 seed Medvedev 7-6(5), 6-7(6), 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/awnQzXHbFs\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/awnQzXHbFs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rolandgarros\/status\/1663574837866971136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set after a tiebreak 7-6 (5) and had a great chance to win the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set after a tiebreak also, but the Russian bounced back and won 7-6 (6) to tie the match 1:1 sets.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev won easily 6-2 in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set, and when everyone expected him to close the clash in 4 sets, Thiago again played better than Daniil in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> and the 5<sup>th<\/sup> set to triumph in them &#8211; 6-3 and 6-4 for the greatest victory in his career so far.<\/p>\n<p>A lot was expected from Medvedev after he won the Rome Masters a few days ago, but he will need to leave Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Seyboth Wild will play in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round of the Roland-Garros against the winner from Halys and Pella.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2 &#8211; Thiago Seyboth Wild is only the second Brazilian male to defeat a top-two ranked opponent at a Grand Slam event in the Open Era after Gustavo Kuerten, who achieved it twice &#8211; Safin (US Open 2002) and Federer (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolandGarros?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolandGarros<\/a> 2004). Big.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rolandgarros?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@rolandgarros<\/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\/S0ySQ3yFNn\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/S0ySQ3yFNn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1663575692603449344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 30, 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>Thiago Seyboth Wild, world number 172, beat world number 2, Daniil Medvedev, in 5 sets after 4 hours and 15 minutes on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":436984,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17539,19432,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[19433,18071,19643,2951],"acf":{"announce":"Thiago shocked Daniil in 5 sets in Paris.","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\/436983"}],"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=436983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436983"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436983"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}