{"id":469173,"date":"2023-11-12T13:29:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T17:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=469173"},"modified":"2023-11-12T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T17:30:09","slug":"sinner-defeats-tsitsipats-in-straight-sets-in-atp-finals-opener","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sinner-defeats-tsitsipats-in-straight-sets-in-atp-finals-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner defeats Tsitsipats in straight sets in ATP Finals opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Sinner emerged victorious in his first day clash of the ATP Finals against Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A brilliant start for Jannik Sinner in his 2nd ATP Finals, defeating the 2019 winner Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4! \ud83d\udcaa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LWfh4R8gFj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/LWfh4R8gFj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TSPN (@TSPNTENNIS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSPNTENNIS\/status\/1723720109556949245?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On home soil the Italian came to his rhythm and easily dispatched the Greek, leaving him with no chance whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Titsipas, who won the tournament in 2019, was on the back foot all through and never looked like an equal match for Sinner. The Greek failed to produce a single break point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was excited to step on court and opening the Finals is really, really special,&#8221; Sinner said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew it was going to be very tough but I think I handled the situation well. I tried to stay aggressive and I am very happy with the performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy to start off with a win and hopefully I can continue with this intensity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time the young Italian has qualified for the ATP on merit, having replaced Mateo Berretini back in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Sinner emerged victorious in his first day clash of the ATP Finals against Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets 6-4, 6-4. A brilliant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":469177,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16864,17625],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[3325,18543],"acf":{"announce":"The Italian was clinical in his display and deservedly won","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\/469173"}],"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\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469176,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469173\/revisions\/469176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469173"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=469173"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=469173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}