{"id":485728,"date":"2024-07-28T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485728"},"modified":"2024-07-28T12:02:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T16:02:10","slug":"nadal-defeats-fucsovics-and-will-face-djokovic-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nadal-defeats-fucsovics-and-will-face-djokovic-at-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadal defeats Fucsovics and will face Djokovic at the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafa Nadal from Spain eliminated Marton Fucsovics from Hungary after 2-1 sets victory and advanced to the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round on singles in Paris where he will face his great rival Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nadal d. Fucsovics 6-1 4-6 6-4 at the Olympics<\/p>\n<p>Not Rafa\u2019s best tennis<\/p>\n<p>But he wasn\u2019t even sure he\u2019d be able to take the court today<\/p>\n<p>No matter the injuries &amp; trials he\u2019s faced in his career, his legendary fighting spirit never once wavered<\/p>\n<p>Today was no exception<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8\u2764\ufe0f\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YKEqbvdAWF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YKEqbvdAWF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1817590698259976421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nadal was dominant in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set and needed only 32 minutes to close it 6-1. The Spaniard converted 2 break opportunities from 2 chances while not giving a single break chance to his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set, Fucsovics started to play better and was able to break Rafa\u2019s serve twice to win the set 6-4. Nadal converted 1 break from 1 chance, but it was not enough for him even to force a tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>In the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set, 1 break from 5 chances was enough for Nadal to win it and close the match as his Hungarian opponent had 4 break opportunities, but Rafa saved them all.<\/p>\n<p>Rafa played this match less than 24 hours after his victory with Carlos Alcaraz at the doubles tournament and the Spaniard even shared yesterday that he is not sure if he will compete on single so early in the day but in the end he decided to play and was successful.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Paris, 2006: 20-year-old Nadal faces 19-year-old Djokovic for the very first time<\/p>\n<p>Paris, 2024: Back in the same city, 38-year-old Nadal faces 37-year-old Djokovic for a 60th time<\/p>\n<p>Timeless. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WCoFhW8ubd\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/WCoFhW8ubd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1817590775867412556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 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>Rafa Nadal from Spain eliminated Marton Fucsovics from Hungary after 2-1 sets victory and advanced to the 2nd round on singles in Paris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485729,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,17409,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[18357,23208,18071,767],"acf":{"announce":"Rafael won his match against Marton from the 1st round.","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\/485728"}],"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=485728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485730,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485728\/revisions\/485730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485728"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485728"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}