{"id":787284,"date":"2026-09-30T09:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787284\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:32:24","slug":"daniil-medvedev-wins-all-russian-affair-to-seal-hangzhou-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787284\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev wins all-Russian affair to seal Hangzhou Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"wcl-news-perex\" itemprop=\"description\">Former world number one Daniil Medvedev sealed his third title of the year on Tuesday, downing Andrey Rublev 7-5, 6-4 in the Hangzhou Open final.<\/p>\n<p>The all-Russian affair in eastern China was a battle of the two favourites, with top-seeded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/medvedev-daniil\/O8qG0Nhb\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Medvedev<\/a> &#8211; now the world number six &#8211; edging out his compatriot.<\/p>\n<p>The first set followed serve until <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/player\/rublev-andrey\/AeAn4gP0\/\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rublev<\/a> slipped up at 5-5, handing the initiative to his opponent.<\/p>\n<p>The rattled world number 24 then lost serve again in the first game of the second set and was playing catch-up from then on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashscore.com\/match\/tennis\/medvedev-d-O8qG0Nhb\/rublev-a-AeAn4gP0\/?mid=YRzVjjGE\" data-analytics-element=\"ARTICLE_TEXT_LINK\" data-analytics-alias=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The win rewarded a consistent performance from Medvedev<\/a>, who savoured his first title since Dubai in February.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 24th of his career on the tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world number one Daniil Medvedev sealed his third title of the year on Tuesday, downing Andrey Rublev&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-787284","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\/787284","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=787284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}