{"id":47192,"date":"2025-04-25T19:27:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=47192"},"modified":"2025-04-25T19:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:27:54","slug":"top-seeds-zverev-and-sabalenka-advance-with-easy-victories-at-madrid-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/top-seeds-zverev-and-sabalenka-advance-with-easy-victories-at-madrid-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Seeds Zverev and Sabalenka Advance with Easy Victories at Madrid Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top seeds Alexander Zverev and Aryna Sabalenka scored comfortable victories in their opening matches at the Madrid Open on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev cruised to a 6-2, 6-2 win over home favorite Roberto Bautista Agut, while Sabalenka triumphed 6-3, 6-4 against qualifier Anna Blinkova.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev, the Madrid champion in 2018 and 2021, needed only 69 minutes to extend his winning streak to six matches. The German player moved to No. 2 in the world after capturing the Munich title last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A good match, I knew I had to focus against Roberto,&#8221; said Zverev, who improved to 24-5 in Madrid. &#8220;I knew that it was going to be a tough challenge. This is my favorite center court in the world, I only lost twice here in my entire life. I hope that stays the way throughout the next 10 days and that I can continue playing good tennis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the third round, Zverev faces Nuno Borges or Alejandro Davidovich Fokina.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka tops Blinkova Sabalenka, winner in Madrid in 2021 and 2023 and last year&#8217;s runner-up to Iga Swiatek, converted three of her seven break opportunities to defeat the 76th-ranked Blinkova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seeds Alexander Zverev and Aryna Sabalenka scored comfortable victories in their opening matches at the Madrid Open on Friday. Zverev cruised to a 6-2, 6-2 win over home favorite Roberto Bautista Agut, while Sabalenka triumphed 6-3, 6-4 against qualifier Anna Blinkova. Zverev, the Madrid champion in 2018 and 2021, needed only 69 minutes to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47192","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\/47192","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=47192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47193,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47192\/revisions\/47193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}