{"id":485486,"date":"2024-07-21T10:52:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T14:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485486"},"modified":"2024-07-21T10:52:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T14:52:55","slug":"borges-defeats-nadal-2-0-sets-in-swedish-open-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/borges-defeats-nadal-2-0-sets-in-swedish-open-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Borges defeats Nadal 2-0 sets in Swedish Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World number 51 Nuno Borges won vs. Rafa Nadal 6-3 6-2 to triumph at the Swedish Open in Bastad.<\/p>\n<p>Rafa, a 22-time Grand Slam winner, didn\u2019t have an answer in today\u2019s loss in his 1<sup>st<\/sup> final in 2 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CHAMPION! <\/p>\n<p>Nuno Borges easily beats Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-2 to win in the title in Bastad.<\/p>\n<p>First career ATP title.<\/p>\n<p>2nd ever Portuguese player to win an ATP title <\/p>\n<p>Against the best clay court player of all time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0fDqOj96ad\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0fDqOj96ad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jos\u00e9 Morgado (@josemorgado) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/josemorgado\/status\/1815018438030458928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hampered by problems in the last years, the Spaniard has fallen to 261 in the rankings and decided to not play at Wimbledon to focus on the Olympics in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Portuguese Nuno, appearing in his 1<sup>st<\/sup> final compared to his opponent\u2019s 131<sup>st<\/sup>, won the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set in 46 minutes and won 3 straight games in the final set to secure the triumph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can\u2019t believe it. I know we all wanted Nadal to triumph &#8211; a part of me wished that too &#8211; but something even bigger inside of me really pushed through to be able to be at my best level today,&#8221; shared the 27-year-old Borges.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal will play next at the Olympics on clay in Paris as the tournament starts on July 27<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number 51 Nuno Borges won vs. Rafa Nadal 6-3 6-2 to triumph at the Swedish Open in Bastad. Rafa, a 22-time Grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485487,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17409,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[23177,23176,18071,767],"acf":{"announce":"Nuno won against Rafael to lift the title at the tournament in Sweden.","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\/485486"}],"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=485486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485489,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485486\/revisions\/485489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485486"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485486"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}