{"id":660592,"date":"2026-05-10T17:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660592\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:28:14","slug":"cerundolo-misses-smash-steals-point-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660592\/","title":{"rendered":"Cerundolo Misses Smash, Steals Point \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, May 10, 2026<br \/>Photo credit: TennisTV Screen Shot<\/p>\n<p>Break point set the stage for a wild whiff and winning recovery from Francisco Cerundolo.<\/p>\n<p>Facing break point at 5-all vs. home hero Lorenzo Musetti watch Cerundolo completely whiff on a routine-mid-court smash. That glaring miss, one that would make most hackers cringe in sympathy, set off a wild chain of events with Cerundolo snatching the point despite his mind-numbing miss.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>See it happen here:<\/p>\n<p>In Cerundolo\u2019s defense, a swirling wind was tossing the ball around like confetti at times and a spitting shower was soon starting. So turbulence made the shot trickier for sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s such a rarity for an elite pro to complete whiff on an overhead. Combine unruly conditions with the fact Cerundolo badly bungled a smash into net earlier in the game in a clear sign his smash confidence was MIA.<\/p>\n<p>Even rarer, the whiff helped Cerundolo in that he didn\u2019t frame it, mishit it or touch it in any way. That enabled him to scramble back, recover and restart the point.<\/p>\n<p>Though Cerundolo saved the break point, two points later Musetti blasted a backhand return strike down the line breaking with a bang for a 6-5 lead. Musetti saved two set points to eventually take a tense tiebreaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, May 10, 2026Photo credit: TennisTV Screen Shot Break point set the stage for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-660592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660592","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=660592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}