{"id":505388,"date":"2026-06-22T12:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505388\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:18:15","slug":"atp-wta-cerundolo-tiafoe-noskova-seize-the-moment-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505388\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP\/WTA: Cerundolo, Tiafoe, Noskova seize the moment &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Persistence paid off in Halle. Tiafoe claimed three Top 10 victories in Germany, including a wild three match point saving escape act facing world No.4 Felix Auger-Aliassime in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Tiafoe, a two-time semi-finalist on home soil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/us-open-2024-semi-finals-men-preview-fritz-tiafoe-sinner-draper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at the US Open<\/a>, had lost all four ATP finals above the 250 level. That involved silverware showdown defeats at Cincinnati 2024 and Acapulco 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Big Foe\u2019s big show in Halle changed that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve lost a lot of finals in my career,\u201d said Tiafoe. \u201cThis is big. I just want to say one of my favourite scriptures:\u00a0The pain that you\u2019re feeling does not compare to the joy that is coming.\u00a0Obviously, that has been proven very true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA couple of weeks ago, I had one of the toughest losses of my career at Roland-Garros (vs Arnaldi), and to come back and have a good week in Stuttgart (quarter-final) and win here for my biggest title, beating the players I did, it\u2019s a huge testimony to that quote. It\u2019s something I\u2019ve been living by.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Persistence paid off in Halle. Tiafoe claimed three Top 10 victories in Germany, including a wild three match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-505388","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\/505388","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=505388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}