{"id":453374,"date":"2026-03-02T09:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453374\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:35:21","slug":"medvedev-wins-second-dubai-title-after-griekspoor-pulls-out-of-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/453374\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev wins second Dubai title after Griekspoor pulls out of final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Daniil Medvedev was \u2060awarded the Dubai Tennis Championships title \u200cafter his opponent Tallon Griekspoor \u200cwithdrew due to \u200can injury he suffered \u200cin the semi-finals, tournament \u200corganisers said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Russian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/medvedev-daniil\/O8qG0Nhb\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Medvedev<\/a> was chasing \u200ca second title \u2060in \u200cDubai after he beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/auger-aliassime-felix\/CzXh4LAb\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Felix \u200bAuger-Aliassime<\/a> in the last four, and \u200bthe former world number one reached the \u2060<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/match\/tennis\/griekspoor-t-f3zfMU5i\/medvedev-d-O8qG0Nhb\/?mid=n1R7NAwe\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">final<\/a> \u200bwithout dropping a set.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/griekspoor-tallon\/f3zfMU5i\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Griekspoor<\/a> said after his straight-sets win over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/rublev-andrey\/AeAn4gP0\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrey \u200cRublev<\/a> that he was struggling with a hamstring injury and would have retired had he lost the second set.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not how I want to win a \u200cfinal. Hoping the \u200binjury for Griekspoor is \u200cnot too bad and wishing him a speedy recovery,&#8221; Medvedev wrote on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev was \u2060awarded the Dubai Tennis Championships title \u200cafter his opponent Tallon Griekspoor \u200cwithdrew due to \u200can&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-453374","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\/453374","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=453374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}