{"id":485462,"date":"2024-07-20T13:33:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T17:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485462"},"modified":"2024-07-20T13:33:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T17:33:44","slug":"nadal-advances-to-1st-final-since-2022-french-open","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nadal-advances-to-1st-final-since-2022-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadal advances to 1st final since 2022 French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafa Nadal advanced to his 1<sup>st<\/sup> final since 2022 Roland-Garros by defeating Duje Ajdukovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on clay at Nordea Open.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An 131st ATP final \ud83e\udd2f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RafaelNadal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@RafaelNadal<\/a> completes another comeback this week defeating Ajdukovic 4-6 6-3 6-4 to make the Bastad final!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NordeaOpen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NordeaOpen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oPDGnEl5Pd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/oPDGnEl5Pd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1814653388707275165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 20, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After needing 4 hours to eliminate 36<sup>th<\/sup> in the world Mariano Navone yesterday in the \u00bc finals, the Spaniard had a slow start vs. Duje and had a break down in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set before turning things in his favor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ajdukovic had 1 of the best backhands that I competed versus,&#8221; Rafa shared. &#8220;It was very, very difficult, without a doubt, but I found a way to survive and to advance to a match for a title after a long time without being in this position. So that&#8217;s very positive, and I&#8217;m very happy with what I achieved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rafa will face world number 51 from Portugal Nuno Borges at the final tomorrow as the Spaniard is playing at the competition in Sweden for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time since he triumphed as a 19-year-old in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafa Nadal advanced to his 1st final since 2022 Roland-Garros by defeating Duje Ajdukovic 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on clay at Nordea Open. An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483595,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17409,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[23168,18071,767],"acf":{"announce":"Rafael reached his 1st final in 2 years.","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\/485462"}],"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=485462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485463,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485462\/revisions\/485463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485462"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485462"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}