{"id":702908,"date":"2026-07-21T06:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702908\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T06:33:27","slug":"rublev-surges-past-darderi-to-claim-bastad-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/702908\/","title":{"rendered":"Rublev surges past Darderi to claim Bastad title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">World number 16 Andrey Rublev dethroned defending champion Luciano Darderi on Sunday in the final of the ATP 250 tournament in Bastad on clay, 6-4, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>This was his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/match\/tennis\/darderi-l-jeXTxMIp\/rublev-a-AeAn4gP0\/?mid=QFYfvBTi\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second win in Bastad following his success in 2023<\/a> and the 18th title of his career. It was his first in 17 months since his victory on the hard court in Doha in February 2025.<\/p>\n<p><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\">Rublev<\/a>, who was top seed, also secured his first title on clay since the Madrid Masters 1000 in April 2024, having previously won the Monte Carlo event in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Italian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.co.uk\/player\/darderi-luciano\/jeXTxMIp\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darderi<\/a>, ranked 18th in the world and seeded number two, showed signs of frustration early in the final.<\/p>\n<p>He was broken on his last service game of the first set and his first in the second, never managing to fight his way back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number 16 Andrey Rublev dethroned defending champion Luciano Darderi on Sunday in the final of the ATP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-702908","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\/702908","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=702908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}