{"id":482557,"date":"2024-04-30T18:21:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T22:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482557"},"modified":"2024-04-30T18:21:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T22:21:22","slug":"lehecka-beats-nadal-in-what-becomes-rafas-last-game-in-madrid","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lehecka-beats-nadal-in-what-becomes-rafas-last-game-in-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehecka beats Nadal in what becomes Rafa\u2019s last game in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jiri Lehecka, world number 31, defeated Rafa Nadal in straight sets and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Mutua Madrid Open. However, the most important thing is that this was Nadal\u2019s last match at the tournament that he won 5 times in his career.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Czech-mate. \u265f\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jirilehecka?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@jirilehecka<\/a> hands Rafael Nadal a 7-5 6-4 defeat in what was possibly his final <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MMOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MMOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s4iZ3T7Oz7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/s4iZ3T7Oz7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1785431081283469334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Even that Lehecka won 2-0 sets, both of the sets were very competitive and the match lasted over 2 hours. The Czech triumphed in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set 7-5 as Jiri broke Rafa\u2019s serve in the last possible moment when the Spaniard was serving to tie the games 6-6 and force a tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, again only 1 break was enough for the Czech to win it as Nadal lost the 1<sup>st<\/sup> game in the set when he was serving and failed to return it and lost 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Jiri will play against world number 4 Daniil Medvedev in the \u00bc finals of the tournament in Madrid.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To the rafters forever \ud83d\ude4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RafaelNadal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RafaelNadal<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MMOPEN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MMOPEN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rADRFHSsYf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rADRFHSsYf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1785432930250010645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 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>Jiri Lehecka, world number 31, defeated Rafa Nadal in straight sets and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Mutua Madrid Open. However, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482558,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20376,18975,17409,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[20377,19026,18071,767],"acf":{"announce":"Jiri eliminated Rafael and advanced to the \u00bc finals in the Madrid Open.","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\/482557"}],"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=482557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482559,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482557\/revisions\/482559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482557"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482557"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}