{"id":721865,"date":"2026-06-07T23:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721865\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T23:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:12:09","slug":"zverev-breaks-grand-slam-duck-in-paris-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/721865\/","title":{"rendered":"Zverev breaks Grand Slam duck in Paris &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI lost a Grand Slam final here two years ago, but now, finally, it&#8217;s a happy ending,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I really felt like the crowd was pushing me throughout the entire two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the showdown, Zverev had claimed three of the pair\u2019s four earlier meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Previous results, though, counted for little given the magnitude of the prize and opportunity at stake.<\/p>\n<p>With Zverev\u2019s two most recent Slam final tormentors \u2013 Jannik Sinner and Alcaraz \u2013 and 24-time major winner Novak Djokovic out of the picture before the second week this year, never had he assumed the favourite label so soon on such a stage.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the outcome, it loomed as the most defining day of the 29-year-old\u2019s career and despite momentary blips, he stayed the course in his fourth major final to prevail after four hours and 16 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI lost a Grand Slam final here two years ago, but now, finally, it&#8217;s a happy ending,&#8221; he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-721865","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\/721865","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=721865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}