{"id":463365,"date":"2026-05-27T22:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/463365\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:52:09","slug":"casper-ruud-is-back-on-track-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/463365\/","title":{"rendered":"Casper Ruud is back on track &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/36389-c.ruud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Casper Ruud<\/a> was very close to joining the walking wounded two days ago. Depleted of all his energy during a grueling first-round tussle with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/33560-r.safiullin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Roman Safiullin<\/a> on Court Simonne-Mathieu, the two-time Roland-Garros finalist failed to convert five match points in the third set and had to dig deep to survive in five.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Ruud\u2019s own words he was \u201creally tired and walking around like a zombie,\u201d doing whatever he could to survive the four-hour battle. <\/p>\n<p>Based on his performance on Wednesday against dangerous Serbian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/45423-h.medjedovic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hamad Medjedovic<\/a>, zombie days are over. Ruud was crisp, lively and efficient as he steered past the world No.58 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 to book his spot in the third round.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was close to going home already,&#8221; Ruud told the crowd. &#8220;But I&#8217;m still here. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had time to recover after a couple of days ago. I felt good on the court, and I feel after the first round I have nothing to lose&#8230; Getting past that first round sometimes can be the key to having a good tournament.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casper Ruud was very close to joining the walking wounded two days ago. Depleted of all his energy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-463365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}