{"id":358548,"date":"2025-12-19T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358548\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:53:07","slug":"rafael-jodar-eliminates-friend-martin-landaluce-waits-on-tonights-decider-in-jeddah-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/358548\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Jodar eliminates friend Martin Landaluce, waits on tonight&#8217;s decider in Jeddah | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Next Gen ATP Finals<br \/>\n    Jodar eliminates friend Landaluce, Budkov Kjaer qualifies for Jeddah SFs<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard needs any result tonight besides four-set win from Tien<\/p>\n<p>December 19, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/jodar-jeddah-2025-friday.jpg\" alt=\"Rafael Jodar in action on Friday at the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF. \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Corinne Dubreuil\/ATP Tour<\/p>\n<p>        Rafael Jodar in action on Friday at the Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p>Spaniard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/rafael-jodar\/j0dz\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Jodar<\/a> put aside his friendship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/martin-landaluce\/l0il\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Landaluce<\/a> on Friday, when he eliminated his countryman with a 4-3(7), 4-1, 4-3(2) victory at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/next-gen-atp-finals\/7696\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF<\/a>. Norwegian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/nicolai-budkov-kjaer\/b0u4\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicolai Budkov Kjaer<\/a> secured his spot in the last four by winning a set against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/learner-tien\/t0ha\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Learner Tien<\/a> in the evening session, which is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Jodar needs any result other than a four-set win by Tien to advance. The American must win the next three sets, and triumph in four sets, to qualify otherwise Jodar will join the-now qualified Budkov Kjaer in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m very happy how I handled the important moments and the pressure moments in this match,&#8221; said Jodar. &#8220;Super happy to get the win here. I&#8217;ve been playing against him for a long time. We are very good friends. We are from the same tennis club,\u00a0Club de Tenis Chamartin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You May Also Like: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/landaluce-jodar-next-gen-atp-finals-2025-feature\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Landaluce &amp; Jodar: From Madrid mates to Jeddah contenders<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blasting 31 winners across the match, Jodar held his nerve when it mattered most, including in the first set when he fended off four set points.<\/p>\n<p>With his idol <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/rafael-nadal\/n409\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Nadal<\/a> in attendance, Jodar again kept his cool in the fourth-set tie-break to avoid any late drama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRafa has been my idol for a long time, since I was very young,\u201d said the teenager. \u201cI used to watch all of his matches. He was my role model in tennis. I\u2019m super happy that he was here. It means a lot that he came to Saudi Arabia to watch this tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jodar was also watertight behind his second serve, having won 92 per cent (12\/13) of his second-serve points, according to the Infosys ATP Stats.<\/p>\n<p>Tien needs to earn victory in three or four sets to advance, having gone 1-1 through his first two matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next Gen ATP Finals Jodar eliminates friend Landaluce, Budkov Kjaer qualifies for Jeddah SFs Spaniard needs any result&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-358548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}