{"id":437338,"date":"2023-06-05T13:59:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T17:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437338"},"modified":"2023-06-05T13:59:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T17:59:02","slug":"rune-eliminates-cerundolo-at-the-french-open-after-5-sets-drama","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rune-eliminates-cerundolo-at-the-french-open-after-5-sets-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Rune eliminates Cerundolo at the French Open after 5 sets drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holger Rune, world number 6, defeated world number 23, Francisco Cerundolo, after a tiebreak in the final 5<sup>th<\/sup> set and reached the \u00bc finals at the Roland-Garros.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UNREAL \ud83e\udd2f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/holgerrune2003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@holgerrune2003<\/a> closes out a five-set thriller against Cerundolo for a spot in the quarters\ud83d\udc4a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolandGarros?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolandGarros<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/azW2YaIF6z\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/azW2YaIF6z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rolandgarros\/status\/1665771762125008897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rune won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set after a tiebreak 7-6 (3), but the Argentinian bounced back and triumphed in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set 6-3. Holger took the lead again after winning the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set 6-4 but made a break after a very controversial call on a double bounce.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco evened the match again after destroying Holger in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> set 6-1 after breaking his opponent&#8217;s serve 3 times.<\/p>\n<p>In the deciding set, the player from Denmark came back from 3-4, 0-40 down, and won it after a tiebreak 7-6 (10-7).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just incredible \ud83d\ude32<\/p>\n<p>Down 6-7 in the 5th set tie-breaker and Holger Rune pulled this out the bag!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolandGarros?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolandGarros<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1IjImjBvMN\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/1IjImjBvMN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eurosport (@eurosport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurosport\/status\/1665775713989939205?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rune will face world number 4 Casper Ruud in the \u00bc finals at the French Open.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2 &#8211; Defeating Francisco Cerundolo at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolandGarros?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolandGarros<\/a>, Holger Rune has made a second Grand Slam quarter-final before turning 21. The first male from Denmark to do so, the last Scandiavian male to achieve this was Stefan Edberg in 1985. <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\/uzW1KuRpPB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/uzW1KuRpPB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1665775486415273985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 5, 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 6, defeated world number 23, Francisco Cerundolo, after a tiebreak in the final 5th set and reached the \u00bc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":437339,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17554,19432,16741,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[19727,19728,18753,18071],"acf":{"announce":"The Danish player advanced to the \u00bc finals.","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\/437338"}],"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=437338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437338"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437338"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}