{"id":12442,"date":"2025-07-21T07:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12442\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T07:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:58:12","slug":"alexander-bublik-battles-to-gstaad-title-to-clinch-maiden-clay-court-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/12442\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Bublik battles to Gstaad title to clinch maiden clay-court crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kazakhstan&#8217;s Alexander Bublik battled past Argentine Juan Manuel Cerundolo 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in the Gstaad final on Sunday to clinch his first career clay-court title.<\/p>\n<p>World number 34 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/bublik-alexander\/t0WN9vR6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bublik<\/a> won on grass at Halle last month and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/match\/v3P5SuTk\/#\/match-summary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">scooped his second title of the season in Switzerland<\/a> after bouncing back from a first-round loss at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is my sixth title and I have played the greats of the game, but this final I will remember as one of the toughest I ever played,&#8221; said Bublik. &#8220;It was complete torture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/cerundolo-juan-manuel\/A93TM7BR\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cerundolo<\/a> was playing in his first tour-level final since 2021 having dumped out top seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/ruud-casper\/zN9UpRqp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Casper Ruud<\/a> in the last eight on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Bublik will climb back into the top 30 on Monday after a resurgence which has seen him win 17 of 22 matches since the start of the Madrid Open in mid-April. He also reached the quarter-finals at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan&#8217;s Alexander Bublik battled past Argentine Juan Manuel Cerundolo 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in the Gstaad final on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-12442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}