{"id":481815,"date":"2024-04-12T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T13:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481815"},"modified":"2024-04-12T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T13:57:06","slug":"sinner-eliminates-rune-to-reach-1-2-finals-in-monte-carlo","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/sinner-eliminates-rune-to-reach-1-2-finals-in-monte-carlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinner eliminates Rune to reach 1\/2 finals in Monte Carlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jannik Sinner, world number 2, won against world number 7, Holger Rune, 2-1 sets and advanced to the \u00bd finals of the Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo where the Italian will face Stefanos Tsitsipas.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jannik Sinner beats Holger Rune in a great match, 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-3 to reach the semifinals in Monte-Carlo for a 2nd consecutive year. <\/p>\n<p>2h41<\/p>\n<p>Great match! <\/p>\n<p>25-1 in 2024<br \/>Stays at #2 after MC<br \/>Rune will leave the top 10 for the first time in 16 months <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GnPMruBbhK\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/GnPMruBbhK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jos\u00e9 Morgado (@josemorgado) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josemorgado\/status\/1778782488875163893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Italian triumphed in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set as only 1 break opportunity was enough for him as he converted it. His Danish opponent also had 1 break chance, but Jannik saved it.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, Sinner had 6 break opportunities as 2 of them were match balls, but Rune saved them all and despite not having a single break chance, Holger forced a tiebreak. Despite the logic of the set, the Danish won the tiebreak 8-6 points and tied the result in the match.<\/p>\n<p>In the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set, the Italian won the set, as he did in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set. The world number 2 had 1 opportunity, and he converted it to make it 5-3. After that, he served for the match and won the clash.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s interesting that Sinner and Rune had played 3 matches before today, and Holger had eliminated his opponent twice in them, but now the head-to-head statistic is evened.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"sl\" dir=\"ltr\">Jannik Sinner is 14-2 against top 10 players since October<\/p>\n<p>Alcaraz \u2705<br \/>Medvedev \u2705<br \/>Rublev \u2705<br \/>Medvedev \u2705<br \/>Rune \u2705<br \/>Tsitsipas \u2705<br \/>Djokovic \u2705<br \/>Medvedev \u2705<br \/>Djokovic \u274c<br \/>Djokovic \u2705<br \/>Rublev \u2705<br \/>Djokovic \u2705<br \/>Medvedev \u2705<br \/>Alcaraz \u274c<br \/>Medvedev \u2705<br \/>Rune \u2705<\/p>\n<p>Racking up top 10 wins like candy<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\udf6c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0kZYwFWSXQ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0kZYwFWSXQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1778783031207268645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 12, 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>Jannik Sinner, world number 2, won against world number 7, Holger Rune, 2-1 sets and advanced to the \u00bd finals of the Masters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481816,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16741,17625,18751,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18753,18543,18752,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Jannik triumphed against Holger at the 1st Masters 1000 on clay.","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\/481815"}],"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=481815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481817,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481815\/revisions\/481817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481815"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481815"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}