{"id":817983,"date":"2026-10-29T21:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817983\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T21:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:46:16","slug":"tennis-alexander-zverev-to-replace-jannik-sinner-as-atp-world-number-one-after-beating-tallon-girekspoor-in-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817983\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis: Alexander Zverev to replace Jannik Sinner as ATP world number one after beating Tallon Girekspoor in Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Cameron Norrie fell short of his best victory of the season when world number five Daniil Medvedev saved match point to win their last-16 match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A frustrating year has seen Norrie drop to 41st in the world rankings and exit each of the past three Grand Slam tournaments in the first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the 31-year-old showed his key attributes &#8211; tenacity, athleticism and controlled aggression &#8211; to threaten a huge upset against Medvedev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Third seed Medvedev, fresh from winning the Almaty title last week, was left angrily punching the surface when he fell a break down in the deciding set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norrie served for the match at 5-3 40-30, but Medvedev picked off his opponent&#8217;s serve-volley attempt and fought back to win 4-6 6-3 7-6 (7-1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Second seed Alcaraz also progressed with a 6-1 7-6 (13-11) win over Georgia&#8217;s Nikoloz Basilashvili.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Novak Djokovic&#8217;s hopes of qualifying for the ATP Finals were harmed by a second-round defeat at the Swiss Indoors event in Basel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 24-time major champion, 39, lost 7-6 (7-4) 5-7 6-7 (5-7) to Germany&#8217;s Jan-Lennard Struff, who produced some inspired tennis to beat the Serb for the first time in nine attempts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, Cameron Norrie fell short of his best victory of the season when world number five Daniil Medvedev&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817983","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\/817983","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=817983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}