{"id":288075,"date":"2023-04-21T00:18:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T00:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=288075"},"modified":"2023-04-21T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T02:00:14","slug":"zverev-stunned-by-aussie-in-brutal-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=288075","title":{"rendered":"Zverev stunned by Aussie in brutal conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

After waiting an extra day to get on court at the BMW Open, Alexander Zverev<\/a>'s tournament was ended in straight sets by Australia's Christopher O'Connell as the tournament's top seed Holger Rune<\/a> won his opening match.<\/p>\n

Zverev, a former world No.3, had a first-round bye and his second-round match with O'Connell was delayed a day after rain washed out most of Thursday's schedule.<\/p>\n

Playing O'Connell, the world No.82, in cold conditions in front of a German crowd huddled in thick coats, Zverev never built much momentum and struggled to land his first serves as he was defeated 7-6 (2), 6-4.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s definitely tough playing Zverev here in front of the home crowd,\u201d the 28-year-old Australian said in his on-court interview. "This is the coldest weather I\u2019ve ever played in. It\u2019s tough, took me a while to get warmed up.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"MUNICH,<\/p>\n

The win over Zverev is O'Connell's second over a top-20 ranked opponent in his career. He will face qualifier Flavio Cobolli in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

Rune secured a spot in the quarter-finals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Yannick Hanfmann and next plays Chilean clay-court specialist Cristian Garin. Rune is aiming to follow up his strong start to the clay season after he was runner-up to Andrey Rublev in Monaco last week. Garin beat sixth-seeded Lorenzo Sonego 6-3, 7-6 (3).<\/p>\n

There were wins too for the second-seeded Taylor Fritz, who beat Marton Fucsovics 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, and fourth-seeded Botic van de Zandschulp, who defeated Aslan Karatsev 6-2, 6-0.<\/p>\n

Dominic Thiem\u2019s match with Marc-Andrea Huesler was suspended because of darkness. The winner faces Fritz in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

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After waiting an extra day to get on court at the BMW Open, Alexander Zverev's tournament was ended in straight sets by Australia's Christopher O'Connell […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288078,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288075\/revisions\/288078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/288077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}