{"id":602750,"date":"2026-05-25T09:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602750\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T09:28:26","slug":"medvedev-what-makes-sinner-so-tough-to-beat-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602750\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev: What makes Sinner so tough to beat &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe can. He can do it for three sets, step up, down the line, strong shot, and then he&#8217;s super fast to cover the forehand side. If you try to wrong-foot him, to go on his backhand, he basically doesn&#8217;t wrong-foot, so he&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s just not easy to play him, but at the same time, I have to say I enjoy it. I had some really good matches against him, even the ones I lost, and it&#8217;s like a tough challenge, which I will always try to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Medvedev has not beaten the tour\u2019s now-dominant force since Wimbledon two years ago, he also had his chances in this year\u2019s Indian Wells final where he fell just shy in two tiebreak sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe can. He can do it for three sets, step up, down the line, strong shot, and then&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-602750","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\/602750","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=602750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}