{"id":453874,"date":"2023-08-04T18:20:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T22:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=453874"},"modified":"2023-08-04T18:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T22:20:23","slug":"fritz-beats-murray-2-1-sets-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/fritz-beats-murray-2-1-sets-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Fritz beats Murray 2-1 sets in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Fritz, world number 9, defeated world number 44, Andy Murray, in a clash that lasted more than 3 hours, and the player from the USA advanced to the \u00bc finals in Washington.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Taylor Fritz: Fighter \ud83d\ude24<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Taylor_Fritz97?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Taylor_Fritz97<\/a> defeats Andy Murray in a tight battle to make the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MubadalaCitiDCOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MubadalaCitiDCOpen<\/a> last eight! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CORXJMFwHZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CORXJMFwHZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1687579212365053957?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Murray triumphed in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set after both players converted 1 break and forced a tiebreak. The player from Great Britain dominated in the tiebreak and won 7-2 points.<\/p>\n<p>Only one break was enough for Fritz to win the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set 6-3 as Murray had one chance to break his opponent&#8217;s serve, but the American saved it.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor won the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set 6-4 again after only 1 break; that time, Andy had 7 chances to return the break, but Fritz saved all of them and won the epic battle in the tournament on hard in the US capital.<\/p>\n<p>In the next round, Fritz will face world number 71 Jordan Thompson from Australia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Taylor Fritz beats Andy Murray 6-7(2) 6-3 6-4 to reach the Washington QF<\/p>\n<p>It can\u2019t be easy to play a legend like Andy.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what stage he\u2019s at in his career, he gives maximum effort every damn time.<\/p>\n<p>A win over Andy always means you\u2019re doing something right. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LSAhjHbBAU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LSAhjHbBAU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1687579180777844736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 4, 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>Taylor Fritz, world number 9, defeated world number 44, Andy Murray, in a clash that lasted more than 3 hours, and the player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":453876,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17769,17410,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18110,18177,18071],"acf":{"announce":"The American tennis player won the clash from the 1\/8 finals.","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\/453874"}],"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=453874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453874"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=453874"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=453874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}