{"id":14363,"date":"2024-05-16T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T01:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/24hscore.org\/news\/?p=14363"},"modified":"2024-05-16T09:13:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T01:13:51","slug":"tommy-paul-ends-daniil-medvedevs-rome-open-title-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/tennis\/tommy-paul-ends-daniil-medvedevs-rome-open-title-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Paul Ends Daniil Medvedev&#8217;s Rome Open Title Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daniil Medvedev&#8217;s bid to defend his Rome Open title came to an abrupt halt in the last-16 stage as he was defeated in straight sets by Tommy Paul, with the American claiming a 6-1, 6-4 victory over the world number four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medvedev, seeded second in the tournament, has never successfully defended an ATP Tour crown and struggled to find his form against Paul, who secured his first-ever win against the former US Open champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul&#8217;s impressive victory sets up a quarter-final clash with Hubert Hurkacz, who earlier knocked out Rafael Nadal in a surprising upset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/tennis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tennis Livescore<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">USA-USA-USA ??<br><br>? Tommy Paul joins compatriot Taylor Fritz in the final 8\ufe0f\u20e3 defeating reigning champion Daniil Medvedev 6-1, 6-4!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IBI24?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#IBI24<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@atptour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VqNLUzL3ol\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/VqNLUzL3ol<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Internazionali BNL d&#39;Italia (@InteBNLdItalia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InteBNLdItalia\/status\/1790434439635353984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With several top-ranked players withdrawing or being eliminated early, including Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner, and Carlos Alcaraz due to injuries, Medvedev had a favorable chance to make a deep run in the tournament. However, he joins the list of big names exiting the competition before the French Open later this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rome Open has witnessed the absence of the world&#8217;s top four ranked men, creating opportunities for other players to shine. Alexander Zverev, the 2017 Rome champion and currently ranked fifth in the world, advances to the quarter-finals after defeating Nuno Borges and sets up a clash with Taylor Fritz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniil Medvedev&#8217;s bid to defend his Rome Open title came to an abrupt halt in the last-16 stage as he was defeated in straight sets by Tommy Paul, with the American claiming a 6-1, 6-4 victory over the world number four. Medvedev, seeded second in the tournament, has never successfully defended an ATP Tour crown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","rank_math_description":"Daniil Medvedev's bid to defend his Rome Open title came to an abrupt halt in the last-16 stage as he was defeated in straight sets by Tommy Paul.","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1404,4262,4082,19],"class_list":["post-14363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-medvedev-daniil","tag-paul-tommy","tag-rome-atp-singles","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14367,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363\/revisions\/14367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}