{"id":43470,"date":"2025-02-22T15:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T12:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=43470"},"modified":"2025-02-22T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T12:07:33","slug":"rio-open-zverev-stunned-by-world-no-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/rio-open-zverev-stunned-by-world-no-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Open: Zverev Stunned by World No. 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine Francisco Comesa\u00f1a pulled off a stunning upset by eliminating World No. 2 and Australian Open runner-up Alexander Zverev in the Rio Open quarterfinals, winning 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in a late-night thriller on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the biggest victory of Comesa\u00f1a\u2019s career so far.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked No. 86, Comesa\u00f1a had already made headlines last year with a surprising win over World No. 6 Andrey Rublev in the first round of Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>However, his victory in Rio de Janeiro is his first-ever triumph against a top-five-ranked opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the match, Comesa\u00f1a said: &#8220;I kept telling myself throughout the match, \u2018It\u2019s amazing to be alive.\u2019 I enjoyed every moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zverev took the first set with three aces, but Comesa\u00f1a fought back, breaking the German\u2019s serve twice in the second set.<\/p>\n<p>In the decisive third set, Zverev struggled with his serve, committing three double faults, allowing Comesa\u00f1a to seize the win.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine reflected: &#8220;This victory is the result of all the hard work I\u2019ve put in to get here. I am grateful for this moment, and I am truly enjoying it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine Francisco Comesa\u00f1a pulled off a stunning upset by eliminating World No. 2 and Australian Open runner-up Alexander Zverev in the Rio Open quarterfinals, winning 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in a late-night thriller on Friday. This marks the biggest victory of Comesa\u00f1a\u2019s career so far. Ranked No. 86, Comesa\u00f1a had already made headlines last year with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43471,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43470\/revisions\/43471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}