{"id":450925,"date":"2026-02-28T21:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450925\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:32:08","slug":"dubai-tennis-championships-daniil-medvedev-wins-title-as-tallon-griekspoor-withdraws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450925\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Tennis Championships: Daniil Medvedev wins title as Tallon Griekspoor withdraws"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was the first time that Medvedev, who claimed the title in 2023, had won the same tournament twice. His 22 previous titles had come at different events.<\/p>\n

“That’s what is crazy about it. I never did it in any city in the world, and the first time I do it, it’s a walkover,” he told the ATP Tour website.<\/p>\n

“I played a great tournament, the four matches I played. Of course I wanted to play the final, but it is what it is.”<\/p>\n

Former world number one Medvedev, who did not drop a set during the tournament, has won two titles this year and three in the past four months.<\/p>\n

His representative told the New York Times, external<\/a> they were trying to establish how Medvedev could travel to California for next week’s Indian Wells tournament after the United Arab Emirates “partially and temporarily” closed its airspace.<\/p>\n

Airlines serving the Middle East have cancelled or diverted flights<\/a> after the US and Israel launched deadly strikes on Iran on Saturday.<\/p>\n

In response, Iran launched strikes targeting Israel and other sites in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Briton Henry Patten and Finland’s Harri Heliovaara sealed back-to-back men’s doubles titles with a 7-5 7-5 victory over Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic in Dubai.<\/p>\n

Patten and Heliovaara have won three of their four tournaments together this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was the first time that Medvedev, who claimed the title in 2023, had won the same tournament…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-450925","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\/450925","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=450925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}