{"id":21424,"date":"2025-08-03T12:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/zverev-1-seeded-advances-at-the-national-bank-open-after-epic-battle\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T12:52:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:52:01","slug":"zverev-1-seeded-advances-at-the-national-bank-open-after-epic-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/zverev-1-seeded-advances-at-the-national-bank-open-after-epic-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Zverev, #1 Seeded, Advances at the National Bank Open After Epic Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Zverev Advances in the Canadian Open<\/h2>\nIn an action-packed night at the National Bank Open tennis tournament, German Alexander Zverev, the number one seed, secured a crucial victory over Italian Matteo Arnaldi.\nZverev, currently in third place in the world ranking, won with partials of 6-7 (5), 6-3 and 6-2, demonstrating his skill on the hard court.\nThe German tennis player, who arrived at the tournament as the top seed due to the absence of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, will face Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina in the next round.\nCerundolo secured his pass after defeating his compatriot Tomas Martin Etcheverry with a score of 6-3, 6-4.\nZverev, who won the BMW Open on clay in Munich in April, seeking his 24th title on the ATP circuit.\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Featured Results<\/h2>\n\nIn other exciting matches, Alex Michelsen of the United States surprised the third seed, Italian Lorenzo Musetti, with a score of 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4.\nMichelsen will now face his compatriot Learner Tien, who defeated Reilly Opelka.\nHolger Rune of Denmark, seeded number five, also advanced to the next round after defeating Alexandre Muller of France with a score of 6-2, 6-4.\nRune will face Alexei Popyrin of Australia, who defeated Daniil Medvedev.\nCasper Ruud of Norway, eighth seed, defeated Nuno Borges of Portugal with a score of 7-5, 6-4 and will face Karen Khachanov of Russia.\nKhachanov defeated Emilio Nava from the United States.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zverev Advances in the Canadian Open In an action-packed night at the National Bank Open tennis tournament, German Alexander Zverev, the number one seed, secured a crucial victory over Italian Matteo Arnaldi. Zverev, currently in third place in the world ranking, won with partials of 6-7 (5), 6-3 and 6-2, demonstrating his skill on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[3555,3018,167,2100],"class_list":{"0":"post-21424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alexander-zverev","9":"tag-atp","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-toronto"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}