{"id":666963,"date":"2026-05-26T23:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/666963\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T23:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:43:11","slug":"top-10-must-watch-second-round-meetings-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/666963\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 must-watch second round meetings &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casper Ruud (15) vs Hamad Medjedovic<\/p>\n<p>RG finalist in 2022 and 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/36389-c.ruud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Casper Ruud<\/a> has been finding his groove in recent months, most notably with a Rome runner-up spot to world No.1 Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian struggled in the scorching heat in his opening match here in Paris and will need to be sharp from the start when he faces Serbia&#8217;s  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/45423-h.medjedovic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hamad Medjedovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old roared into the Rome last 16 to back up a Barcelona semifinal on the road to Roland-Garros. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In their only previous meeting, Ruud edged past Medjedovic 7-5, 7-5 on the Barcelona clay last April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casper Ruud (15) vs Hamad Medjedovic RG finalist in 2022 and 2023, Casper Ruud has been finding his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-666963","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\/666963","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=666963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}