{"id":465664,"date":"2023-10-13T10:22:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T14:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465664"},"modified":"2023-10-13T10:22:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T14:22:16","slug":"rublev-defeats-humbert-to-advance-to-shanghai-1-2-finals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rublev-defeats-humbert-to-advance-to-shanghai-1-2-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rublev defeats Humbert to advance to Shanghai 1\/2 finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrey Rublev, world number 7, eliminated world number 34, Ugo Humbert, and will be among the 4 best tennis players at the tournament in Shanghai, China.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">5 &#8211; Andrey Rublev conceded five games to Ugo Humbert, en route to a SF berth at the Shanghai Masters. They are the fewest games Rublev has dropped from the R16 onwards at an ATP Masters 1000 event. Benchmark.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolexShanghaiMasters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolexShanghaiMasters<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SH_RolexMasters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@SH_RolexMasters<\/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\/LlQErYGkdP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LlQErYGkdP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1712826208029659474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set, Andrey converted 2 break points from 7 opportunities, while Humbert had a single chance to break the Russian\u2019s serve but missed it and lost the set 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, Rublev continued to show that he was the better player in the match, and while allowing Ugo to break his serve, he did it 3 times from 3 chances \u2013 a 100% successful rate at break point opportunities and won the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u00bd final at the Masters 1000 in Shanghai, the Russian will play vs. Grigor Dimitrov, who eliminated the top seed at the tournament \u2013 Carlos Alcaraz at the 1\/8 finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Throwback to the moment Andrey Rublev declared his love for Grigor Dimitrov earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Andrey: \u201cI almost fell in love with you.\u201d \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>The bromance that keeps on giving.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies &amp; Gentleman, I give you your Shanghai Masters Semifinalists.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lvd9vvpJhL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Lvd9vvpJhL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1712830731045728495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 13, 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>Andrey Rublev, world number 7, eliminated world number 34, Ugo Humbert, and will be among the 4 best tennis players at the tournament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":465665,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17869,21634,21368],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[17871,21636,21369],"acf":{"announce":"The Russian will face Grigor Dimitrov in the semifinals.","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\/465664"}],"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=465664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465668,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465664\/revisions\/465668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465664"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465664"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}