{"id":469972,"date":"2023-11-16T18:50:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=469972"},"modified":"2023-11-16T18:50:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:50:42","slug":"sinner-beats-rune-and-helps-djokovic-to-advance-at-atp-finals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sinner-beats-rune-and-helps-djokovic-to-advance-at-atp-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner beats Rune and qualifies Djokovic to the ATP Finals semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Sinner, world number 4, won against world number 10, Holger Rune, 2-1 sets and will finish at the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place in Group A after 3 victories from 3 matches.<\/p>\n<p>World number 1 \u2013 Novak Djokovic is the happiest man after Sinner\u2019s victory because that means that the Serbian will finish 2<sup>nd<\/sup> in the group and will also advance to the \u00bd finals of the ATP Finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A TITAN IN TURIN \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/janniksin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@janniksin<\/a> battles to beat Rune 6-2 5-7 6-4 and enters the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NittoATPFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NittoATPFinals<\/a> Final Four with a PERFECT 3-0 record! \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v8Zw6uSi4w\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/v8Zw6uSi4w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1725284306447225330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Italian dominated in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set and won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 4 games in the match. Sinner closed it 6-2 games for only 33 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>However, his Danish opponent played a lot better in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set and stole it in the last possible moment as he broke Jannik\u2019s serve when the Italian was serving to tie the games 6-6 and force a tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>Everything was decided after a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set. We must acknowledge that Sinner suffered some problems in the final minutes of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set and wasn\u2019t at 100%, but he still gave his best despite already being qualified for the final 4 of the tournament. The game went close, and when Rune was serving to tie 5-5 games, Sinner converted the only break in the set, which was enough for the Italian to triumph 6-4 in the 3rd set and, respectfully, the match.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jannik Sinner beats Holger Rune 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 in a dramatic match, wins the Green Group and qualifies Novak Djokovic to the semifinals!<\/p>\n<p>Quite a day here in Turin! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MhhL0F6BKJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MhhL0F6BKJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jos\u00e9 Morgado (@josemorgado) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josemorgado\/status\/1725283755873460371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 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>Jannik Sinner, world number 4, won against world number 10, Holger Rune, 2-1 sets and will finish at the 1st place in Group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":469974,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16864,16741,17625,18069],"news_category":[16714,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[3325,18753,18543,18071],"acf":{"announce":"The Italian played fair play and defeated his Danish opponent after 3 sets.","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\/469972"}],"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=469972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469976,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469972\/revisions\/469976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469972"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=469972"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=469972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}