Top-seeded Alexander Zverev crashed out of the ATP Acapulco Open on Wednesday, losing in three sets to unseeded Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic who claimed his first career win over a top-five player.<\/p>\n
Kecmanovic<\/a>, ranked 84th in the world, triumphed 6-3, 6-7 (3\/7), 7-6 (7\/4)<\/a> over world number four Zverev<\/a>, who was playing his first tournament since an epic semi-final defeat to eventual champion Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n Kecmanovic, 25, had come up empty in 11 prior career matches against top-five players.<\/p>\n He cruised through the opening set, before Zverev clawed his way back into the match, finally sealing the victory after two hours and 35 minutes.<\/p>\n “It feels amazing,” said Kecmanovic, who was aided by 17 unforced backhand errors from the German.<\/p>\n “Obviously he’s the big favorite, so I didn’t have any pressure there, but you still have to play well when it matters, close out the match and thankfully it went my way,” he added.<\/p>\n With Zverev\u2019s defeat, the 500 level hardcourt tournament has now lost its top four seeds.<\/p>\n Second-seeded Australian Alex de Minaur<\/a> was eliminated on Monday, third-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway lost on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a>, the fourth seed, exited also on Wednesday to Italy’s Mattia Bellucci<\/a> in straight sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-seeded Alexander Zverev crashed out of the ATP Acapulco Open on Wednesday, losing in three sets to unseeded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-448423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}