{"id":481781,"date":"2024-04-11T10:38:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T14:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481781"},"modified":"2024-04-11T10:39:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T14:39:35","slug":"tsitsipas-eliminates-zverev-in-straight-sets-in-monte-carlo","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tsitsipas-eliminates-zverev-in-straight-sets-in-monte-carlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsitsipas eliminates Zverev in straight sets in Monte Carlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas, world number 12, defeated world number 5, Alexander Zverev, 2-0 sets in a matchup from the 1\/8 finals of the Masters 1000 on clay in Monte Carlo and the Greek advanced to the \u00bc finals where he will face Karen Khachanov who eliminated Daniil Medvedev earlier today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">8 consecutive clay Masters 1000 QFs \ud83e\udd2f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/steftsitsipas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@steftsitsipas<\/a> survies a late Zverev fightback to win 7-5 7-6 \ud83e\udd75<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolexMonteCarloMasters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RolexMonteCarloMasters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6TuLhkBa3H\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6TuLhkBa3H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1778418562400473235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 1<sup>st<\/sup> set was very competitive as only 1 break was enough for Tsitsipas to win it and it happened when Zverev served to make it 6-6 and to force a tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>This definitely affected Alexander, and he started in the worst way possible in the 2nd set as the Greek won the 1st 5 games in the set and even had a match ball to win it 6-0, but Zverev saved it and won his 1<sup>st<\/sup> game in the set to make it 5-1. The German won the next 4 games and tied the result and, after that, forced a tiebreak, but Stefanos won the tiebreak and the match.<\/p>\n<p>That was the 15<sup>th<\/sup> match between Stefanos and Alexander, as Tsitsipas had won 10 of these games as that was the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> victory on clay for the Greek as the German had only 1 triumph on clay against him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stefanos Tsitsipas after beating Zverev in Monte Carlo 7-5, 7-6 after being up 5-0 in the 2nd set<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would call it an adventure of a lifetime.\u201d \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UcZztlmn02\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/UcZztlmn02<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1778419189906354274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 11, 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>Stefanos Tsitsipas, world number 12, defeated world number 5, Alexander Zverev, 2-0 sets in a matchup from the 1\/8 finals of the Masters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481782,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16760,18751,17249,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[17870,18752,18070,18071],"acf":{"announce":"The Greek player eliminated his German opponent from the 1\/8 finals.","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\/481781"}],"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=481781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481786,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481781\/revisions\/481786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481781"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481781"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}