{"id":492498,"date":"2025-04-26T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492498"},"modified":"2025-04-26T12:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:46:32","slug":"arnaldi-eliminates-djokovic-in-madrid-open-1st-round","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/arnaldi-eliminates-djokovic-in-madrid-open-1st-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnaldi eliminates Djokovic in Madrid Open 1st round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nole wanted more applause from the crowd after the 24-time Grand Slam champ chased down an apparently lost ball and triumphed with the point.<\/p>\n<p>However, that didn\u2019t result in a comeback as the Serbian lost in consecutive sets against Matteo Arnaldi in his 1<sup>st<\/sup> clash of the Madrid Open today.<\/p>\n<p>Novak has been defeated in 3 straight matches, including losing the title at the Miami Open and his 1<sup>st<\/sup> match at the Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo against Alejandro Tabilo 2 weeks ago. The Serbian is yet to win a match on clay before the start of the French Open in May.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First meeting vs Djokovic \u2705<br \/>First win vs Djokovic \u2705<\/p>\n<p>Matteo Arnaldi earns his second top 5 win in impressive fashion \ud83d\udcaa<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\/RBpNXWj3Pz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/RBpNXWj3Pz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis Channel (@TennisChannel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisChannel\/status\/1916150259014684923?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Matteo secured the victory 6-3, 6-4, delaying Novak\u2019s search for a 100<sup>th<\/sup> career trophy. Djokovic made 32 unforced errors as Arnaldi finished with only 18 and lost his serve 3 times.<\/p>\n<p>That was the 1<sup>st<\/sup> match between the Serbian and his Italian opponent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNovak is my idol, he has always been,\u201d shared the Italian after the win. \u201cTo face him in such an important match was a win for me despite the result. He is not at his best at the moment, so I had the chance to win and I did it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nole wanted more applause from the crowd after the 24-time Grand Slam champ chased down an apparently lost ball and triumphed with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":492499,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[23472,22982,16740,18069],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[23473,22983,17855,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Novak lost his 1st match at the Masters 1000 in Madrid.","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\/492498"}],"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=492498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492501,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492498\/revisions\/492501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492498"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492498"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}