{"id":455267,"date":"2023-08-16T00:06:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T20:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455267"},"modified":"2023-08-16T00:06:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T20:06:25","slug":"zverev-breeze-past-dimitrov-in-windy-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/zverev-breeze-past-dimitrov-in-windy-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"Zverev breeze past Dimitrov in windy Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Zverev breezed past Grigor Dimitrov in the first round of the Masters in Cincinnati. Bulgaria&#8217;s top player was defeated 2:6, 2:6 in a match that lasted only an hour and 13 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The match started evenly, but Zverev got a break in the third game. Both players continued to exchange games until the seventh game, in which Zverev managed to achieve a second break and afterwards closed the first set in 6:2.<\/p>\n<p>In the fourth game of the second set, Dimitrov squandered two break points, but Zverev didn&#8217;t do the same in his turn, except that he saved the break and managed to win a game on Dimitrov&#8217;s serve. The convincing German closed the second game at 6:2 again and won the match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Former World No.2 Alexander Zverev races into the second round of Cincinnati with a straight sets win against former World No.3 Grigor Dimitrov \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AlexanderZverev?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AlexanderZverev<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cincinnati?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Cincinnati<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Tennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uDomN0X3hn\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/uDomN0X3hn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sportskeeda Tennis (@SK__Tennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SK__Tennis\/status\/1691536314238398475?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Zverev will face Yoshihito Nishioka in the next phase of the Masters series tennis tournament in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Zverev breezed past Grigor Dimitrov in the first round of the Masters in Cincinnati. Bulgaria&#8217;s top player was defeated 2:6, 2:6 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":455273,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16760,20933,17570],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[17870,20934,611],"acf":{"announce":"The German let his opponent take just four games ","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\/455267"}],"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=455267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455267"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455267"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}