{"id":485793,"date":"2024-07-30T12:58:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T16:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485793"},"modified":"2024-07-30T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T14:42:44","slug":"zverev-continues-olympic-title-defense-with-dominant-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/zverev-continues-olympic-title-defense-with-dominant-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Zverev continues Olympic title defense with dominant win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Zverev has moved on to the round of 16 at the Paris Olympic Games after a convincing straight-sets win over Tom\u00e1\u0161 Mach\u00e1\u010d from the Czech Republic, finishing the match 6-3, 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning Olympic champion will next face Alexei Popyrin, who earned his spot by defeating Stan Wawrinka.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Zverev&#8217;s title defense is going strong \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tennis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Tennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TGQmXur60y\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/TGQmXur60y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rolandgarros\/status\/1818287060723323010?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the first set, Mach\u00e1\u010d broke Zverev\u2019s serve early, but Zverev quickly regained his footing, breaking back and taking Mach\u00e1\u010d\u2019s serve again in the 6th game to secure the set comfortably.<\/p>\n<p>The second set proved more challenging for Zverev, as both players struggled with the hot Parisian weather. They traded early breaks and held their serves consistently afterward. Just when it seemed the set would head to a tiebreak, Zverev managed to break Mach\u00e1\u010d&#8217;s serve in the final game and then confidently served out the match.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jt6omfF5rzc?si=WSV4IRjUvmoKELxV\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Zverev is joined in the round of 16 by Taylor Fritz, Lorenzo Musetti, F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime, and Corentin Moutet, all of whom have advanced in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Zverev has moved on to the round of 16 at the Paris Olympic Games after a convincing straight-sets win over Tom\u00e1\u0161 Mach\u00e1\u010d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485794,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,16760],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[18357,17870],"acf":{"announce":"Tokyo 2020 champion defeated Tom\u00e1\u0161 Mach\u00e1\u010d in straight sets to reach the round of 16","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\/485793"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485795,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485793\/revisions\/485795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485793"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485793"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}