{"id":963423,"date":"2026-04-28T17:54:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/?p=963423"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:54:28","slug":"rud-spasio-dvije-mec-lopte-i-nastavio-put-ka-odbrani-titule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/sport\/rud-spasio-dvije-mec-lopte-i-nastavio-put-ka-odbrani-titule\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruud saves two match points and continues his path to defending his title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The match lasted exactly three hours, and only two breaks were seen in the entire duel (both in the third set). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tsitsipas, currently ranked 80th in the world, has a lot to regret, as he wasted two match points in the deciding set. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Greek won the first tie-break in his favor 7:4, while the Norwegian responded even more convincingly in the second \u2013 7:2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the deciding set, Tsitsipas broke at 2:2. Leading 5:3, the former world number three missed two tied match points on his opponent's serve, or rather, Ruud saved them with a great forehand, or rather serve. After that, the defending champion returned the break and fought for another tiebreak, in which he celebrated with a score of 7:3. <\/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\">Champions mentality \ud83e\udde0<br><br>Defending champ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CasperRuud98?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@CasperRuud98<\/a> saves two match points as he storms back to defeat Tsitsipas 6-7(4), 7-6(2), 7-6(3)!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MutuaMadridOpen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MutuaMadridOpen<\/a> | <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\/oM1CHf0NTo\">pic.twitter.com\/oM1CHf0NTo<\/a><\/p>\u2014 ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/2049150891895243047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 28, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rud will play the winner of the match between Francisco Serundolo and Alexander Blok in the quarterfinals. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaspar Ruud continued his campaign to defend his title at the Madrid Masters, after overcoming Stefanos Tsitsipas in three tiebreaks - 6:7 (4), 7:6 (2), 7:6 (3) and advancing to the quarterfinals.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":929015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[3356,25047,1829],"naslovna":[],"class_list":["post-963423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-kasper-rud","tag-masters-u-madridu","tag-stefanos-cicipas"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963432,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963423\/revisions\/963432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963423"},{"taxonomy":"naslovna","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naslovna?post=963423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}