{"id":439535,"date":"2023-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/rune-comes-back-from-set-down-to-eliminate-dimitrov-at-wimbledon\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T04:00:00","slug":"rune-comes-back-from-set-down-to-eliminate-dimitrov-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rune-comes-back-from-set-down-to-eliminate-dimitrov-at-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Rune comes back from set down to eliminate Dimitrov at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holger Rune put an end on Grigor Dimitrov&#8217;s Wimbledon perfect streak and eliminated him at the Round of 16, winning 3:1 6:3, 6:7(6), 6:7 (4), 3:6.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Roaring into the Quarters  <\/p>\n<p>Rune defeats Dimitrov 3-6 7-6 7-6 6-3 to reach the Last 8\ufe0f\u20e3 for the very first time! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Wimbledon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Wimbledon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iouG9ZNkdP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iouG9ZNkdP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1678485896776019990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Dane, who is ranked No. 6 in the world, lost the first set but made a comeback after two tiebreaks. The Bulgarian managed to get e valuable break at the end of the first set and won it 6:3, but the next two sets went to tiebreaks and both times Rune showed cooler nerves and won them to get the game into fourth set.<\/p>\n<p>Both players were neck to neck at the beginning, but Dimitrov made two double faults in the middle of the set and practically gifted his opponent a break before Rune finishing the set 6:3.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rune beats Dimitrov to reach his 1st Wimbledon QF<\/p>\n<p>Before this year, he had never won a match at Wimbledon<\/p>\n<p>The rate that Holger, Alcaraz, &amp; Jannik Sinner are improving on every surface simultaneously is so impressive<\/p>\n<p>20 years old<br \/>\n20 years old<br \/>\n21 years old <\/p>\n<p>Insanity. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qemUjFHWLP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/qemUjFHWLP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1678484342065213440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe battle between the two on Court 1 lasted almost 3:30 hours and Rune will face either Carlos Alcaraz or Matteo Berrettini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holger Rune put an end on Grigor Dimitrov&#8217;s Wimbledon perfect streak and eliminated him at the Round of 16, winning 3:1 6:3, 6:7(6), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":439536,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17570,16741,17072],"news_category":[20292,16714],"gn_keywords":[18753,6273,611],"acf":{"news_source":null,"link_picture":null,"announce":"The Dane won 3-1 to square up a quarter final against Alcaraz or Berrettini","video":null},"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\/439535"}],"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=439535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439535"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439535"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}