{"id":481287,"date":"2024-03-29T23:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481287"},"modified":"2024-03-29T23:00:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T03:00:34","slug":"dimitrov-eliminates-zverev-to-reach-miami-open-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/dimitrov-eliminates-zverev-to-reach-miami-open-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimitrov eliminates Zverev to reach Miami Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grigor Dimitrov won against Alexander Zverev 2-1 sets to advance to the final at Masters 1000 in Miami and secured his return to the world\u2019s Top 10.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pure Grigor GOLD \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>The moment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrigorDimitrov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GrigorDimitrov<\/a> snapped a seven-match losing streak against Alexander Zverev to reach his third Masters final! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MiamOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MiamOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AlNQVJlbIm\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AlNQVJlbIm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1773891376280670443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Bulgarian continues his fantastic form at the Miami Open and will have the chance to lift the title as he will play in the final against Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n<p>One break opportunity in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set was enough for Dimitrov to triumph 6-4 as his opponent had only 1 break chance but the Bulgarian saved it.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, neither player had any break opportunities, and the set was decided after a tiebreak as Zverev dominated and won 7-4 points to tie the sets.<\/p>\n<p>Despite that, Grigor continued to play better, and again, like, in the 1st set; 1 break chance was enough for the Bulgarian as he converted it and won the set and the match. Alexander had 1 break opportunity but didn\u2019t convert it.<\/p>\n<p>Dimitrov eliminated world number 2, Carlos Alcaraz, in his previous game at the tournament in straight sets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dimitrov d. Zverev 6-4 6-7 6-4<\/p>\n<p>For years, people called him Baby Fed<\/p>\n<p>But these last few months, he doesn\u2019t look like baby anything<\/p>\n<p>\u2705Back in top 10 for 1st time since 2018<br \/>\u270520th final<br \/>\u27053rd Masters final<br \/>\u27051st win over Zverev since 2014<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the ultimate Grigor Dimitrov.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddec <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lLCMA0aQsB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lLCMA0aQsB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1773890101430678010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 30, 2024<\/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>Grigor Dimitrov won against Alexander Zverev 2-1 sets to advance to the final at Masters 1000 in Miami and secured his return to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481288,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16760,17570,17803,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[17870,7878,18071,611],"acf":{"announce":"Grigor ended a 7-game losing streak against Alexander.","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\/481287"}],"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=481287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481290,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481287\/revisions\/481290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481287"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481287"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}