{"id":684683,"date":"2026-06-04T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/684683\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:10:09","slug":"day-13-match-of-the-day-part-one-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/684683\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 13 Match of the day &#8211; part one &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His search for that elusive Grand Slam title has looked, at times, painful. As the chances come and go, the scars must run deep. But when someone asked if he would trade his Olympic gold medal for one of those shiny cups, he was having none of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo chance,\u201d was the emphatic reply.\u00a0\u201cI will never trade my gold medal for anything.\u201d But then he added, with a smile, \u201cbut I wouldn&#8217;t mind to add a few things to my list as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These courts are Zverev\u2019s happiest hunting ground. He pushed Alcaraz hard over five sets in the 2024 final; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/2026-edition-qf-zverev-jodar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">this will be his fifth semifinal<\/a> and he has three further quarterfinal finishes to his name. He plays his best on the Paris clay. He just needs to keep the blinkers on and focus on the first ball of the match ahead of him. That, though, can be easier said than done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me it&#8217;s quite simple,\u201d he said. \u201cIt&#8217;s me playing well. I think I really have to trust my game, and I have to trust my tennis and trust myself. If I play well, then I think that&#8217;s 99 per cent of the work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is that other one per cent that is always the most elusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His search for that elusive Grand Slam title has looked, at times, painful. As the chances come and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-684683","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\/684683","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=684683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}