{"id":361551,"date":"2024-01-21T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T11:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=361551"},"modified":"2024-01-21T12:02:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T12:02:06","slug":"demon-stuns-legends-with-shot-of-the-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=361551","title":{"rendered":"Demon stuns legends with 'shot of the tournament'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex de Minaur<\/a>\ufeff has pulled of an incredible shot that sent Rod Laver Arena into a frenzy against Andrey Rublev in the fourth round of the Australian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Australian managed to chase down a difficult Rublev ball that hit net, then curve it around the side of the net<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It forced the ball back to Rublev, who mistimed his return shot, handing de Minaur the point.<\/p>\n

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"This could be the turning point in the entire match, right here. What a shot!" John McEnroe said on Nine.<\/p>\n

"You got to watch that over and over… how in the world has that happened?"<\/p>\n

\"Alex<\/p>\n

The world No.10 utilised his speed around the court to grab the unlikely point.<\/p>\n

"He shows us just how lightning he is," McEnroe added.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Lleyton Hewitt also dubbed it "the shot of the tournament."<\/p>\n

De Minaur dropped the first set to the world No.5 4-6, but staged a comeback to grab the second set 7-6 after a stellar 7-5 tiebreaker.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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Alex de Minaur\ufeff has pulled of an incredible shot that sent Rod Laver Arena into a frenzy against Andrey Rublev in the fourth round of […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":361553,"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\/361551"}],"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=361551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361554,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361551\/revisions\/361554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/361553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}