{"id":465781,"date":"2023-10-14T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465781"},"modified":"2023-10-14T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T14:08:08","slug":"rublev-eliminates-dimitrov-to-reach-shanghai-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rublev-eliminates-dimitrov-to-reach-shanghai-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Rublev eliminates Dimitrov to reach Shanghai final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrey Rublev reached the Shanghai Masters final after beating Grigor Dimitrov 7:6(7); 6:3 in an intriguing semi-final clash. The first set was over one hour and 20 minutes and it looked like it was crucial for the final result.<\/p>\n<p>The first set was very balanced and both players didn&#8217;t let their opponent break them until the very end. Dimitrov was serving for 6-5, but Rublev capitalized on a double fault and was one step away from clinching the set.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian, though, also showed shaky hand and lost his game, sending the set into a tiebreak. In it both players were exchanging mini breaks, but Rublev showed cooler head in the decisive moments and won 9-7.<\/p>\n<p>The second part started excellent for Dimitrov, taking an early break, but right after that Rublev switched on a different speed and left the Bulgarian no chance, taking two breaks and winning 6-3.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Rublev d. Grigor Dimitrov 7-6(7) 6-3<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been 6 months since Andrey won his 1st Masters title<\/p>\n<p>His blood, sweat, &amp; tears went into that trophy<\/p>\n<p>It was a day to celebrate the tremendous player &amp; person Andrey is<\/p>\n<p>\u27054th Masters Final<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, we might be celebrating once again. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WfapXpQdHA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WfapXpQdHA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1713193123168530897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nIn the final on Sunday Rublev will battle with Hubert Hurkacz for the title in Shanghai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrey Rublev reached the Shanghai Masters final after beating Grigor Dimitrov 7:6(7); 6:3 in an intriguing semi-final clash. The first set was over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":465784,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17869,17570,21634],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[17871,21636,611],"acf":{"announce":"The Russian will face Hubert Hurkacz on Sunday ","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\/465781"}],"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=465781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465785,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465781\/revisions\/465785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465781"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465781"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}