{"id":14780,"date":"2024-05-21T10:29:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T02:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/24hscore.org\/news\/?p=14780"},"modified":"2024-05-21T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T02:29:41","slug":"tommy-paul-stops-medvedevs-rome-open-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/tennis\/tommy-paul-stops-medvedevs-rome-open-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev&#8217;s Rome Open Title Defense Halted by Tommy Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the last-16 stage of the Rome Open, Daniil Medvedev&#8217;s (28) bid to defend his title came to an abrupt end on Tuesday as he was ousted in straight sets by Tommy Paul (26), with a scoreline of 6-1, 6-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second-seeded Medvedev, who has yet to successfully defend an ATP Tour title, faced a significant setback against the determined American, suffering his first defeat against the former US Open champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul will advance to the quarter-finals to face Hubert Hurkacz, who earlier eliminated Rafael Nadal in the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite a favorable opportunity at the Foro Italico, Medvedev faltered, joining the list of prominent players who exited the tournament prematurely just ahead of this month&#8217;s French Open.<\/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><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/tennis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tennis Livescore<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rome&#8217;s roster lacks the world&#8217;s top four ranked men following Novak Djokovic&#8217;s departure on Sunday, along with Italian world number two Jannik Sinner and third-ranked Carlos Alcaraz withdrawing due to injuries prior to the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holger Rune, last year&#8217;s finalist against Medvedev, and Madrid champion Andrey Rublev, ranked sixth globally, along with beaten finalist Felix Auger-Aliassime, were also eliminated on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seizing the opportunity is world number five and 2017 Rome champion Alexander Zverev, who secured a spot in the quarter-finals after a convincing victory over unseeded Nuno Borges, setting up a clash with Taylor Fritz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the last-16 stage of the Rome Open, Daniil Medvedev&#8217;s (28) bid to defend his title came to an abrupt end on Tuesday as he was ousted in straight sets by Tommy Paul (26), with a scoreline of 6-1, 6-4. The second-seeded Medvedev, who has yet to successfully defend an ATP Tour title, faced a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14791,"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":"At the last-16 stage of the Rome Open, Daniil Medvedev's (28) bid to defend his title came to an abrupt end on Tuesday.","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1404,4262,4082,19],"class_list":["post-14780","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\/14780","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=14780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14792,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14780\/revisions\/14792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/24hscore.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}