{"id":964469,"date":"2026-04-30T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/?p=964469"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:35:47","slug":"iznenadjenje-u-madridu-bloks-ispratio-branioca-titule-za-prvo-masters-polufinale-u-karijeri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/sport\/iznenadjenje-u-madridu-bloks-ispratio-branioca-titule-za-prvo-masters-polufinale-u-karijeri\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise in Madrid: Bloks sees off defending champion to first Masters semifinal of his career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two-time Roland Garros finalist was surprised by 21-year-old Belgian Alexander Bloks, who won in straight sets \u2013 6:4, 6:4 after an hour and a half of tennis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first set, the 69th tennis player in the world was the first to break, leading 2:1 and holding the break until 4:3. Then the Norwegian returned the lost serve, but only briefly, as he broke again in the next set and then served for 1:0, using the fourth set point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to the second part of the match, the seventh game was decisive, in which the Belgian realized the third break point for 4:3. Leading 5:3, Aleksander had two tied match points on his opponent's serve, but then used the fourth, or second match point on his serve, for the greatest success of his career so far. <\/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\">There's a new kid on the Blockx \ud83d\ude09<br><br>Alexander Blockx takes down the defending champion Ruud 6-4, 6-4 to reach his first Masters 1000 semi-final! <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\/ev6QZB8XHY\">pic.twitter.com\/ev6QZB8XHY<\/a><\/p>\u2014 ATP Tour (@atptour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/2049835009083580457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 30, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bloks will be at least 35th on the ATP list as of next Monday, while Rudd drops out of the Top 20 after five years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Belgian will play the winner of the Alexander Zverev \u2013 Flavio Coboli match in the semifinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second semi-final, Janik Siner and Artur Fiss meet. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Madrid Masters will have a new champion, as last year's winner and defending champion Kasper Ruud was eliminated in the quarterfinals. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":964483,"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":[27867,3356,25047],"naslovna":[],"class_list":["post-964469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-aleksander-bloks","tag-kasper-rud","tag-masters-u-madridu"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964469","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=964469"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964487,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964469\/revisions\/964487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964469"},{"taxonomy":"naslovna","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradski.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naslovna?post=964469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}