{"id":455313,"date":"2023-08-16T21:17:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T17:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=455313"},"modified":"2023-08-16T21:17:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T17:17:25","slug":"medvedev-defeats-musetti-in-straight-sets-in-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/medvedev-defeats-musetti-in-straight-sets-in-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev defeats Musetti in straight sets in Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniil Medvedev, world number 3, won easily against world number 18, Lorenzo Musetti, 2-0 sets in a matchup from the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round at the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Meddy at the Ready \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaniilMedwed?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@DaniilMedwed<\/a> notches a second win over Musetti in a week, coming through 6-3 6-2<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cincytennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Cincytennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lCk1HUOSee\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lCk1HUOSee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1691850770767876155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The whole match lasted only 1 hour and 19 minutes as Daniil triumphed in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set after 45 minutes, 6-3, after converting 2 break points from 3 chances. In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, which lasted only 34 minutes, Medvedev again broke his opponent\u2019s serve twice as he didn\u2019t allow to Musetti any break chances.<\/p>\n<p>The only match between Medvedev and Musetti before today was earlier this month in the round of 16 in Toronto, where the Russian won again in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>Daniil will face world number 16, Alexander Zverev, in the 1\/8 finals in Cincinnati, USA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Daniil Medvedev on Cincinnati:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my 1st Masters win, always special memories. In general, I like every tournament on tour. Sometimes it\u2019s nice to be in the countryside: We\u2019re living in a house with my coach, cooking for ourselves. It\u2019s a big change before NY. It\u2019s great\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3Nlz2EUJUF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/3Nlz2EUJUF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1691853168282599779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 16, 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>Daniil Medvedev, world number 3, won easily against world number 18, Lorenzo Musetti, 2-0 sets in a matchup from the 2nd round at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":455314,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17539,20945,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[20946,18071,2951],"acf":{"announce":"The Russian started the 2nd round with a 2:0 sets victory.","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\/455313"}],"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=455313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/455313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455313"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=455313"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=455313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}