{"id":557,"date":"2021-08-18T07:14:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/?p=557"},"modified":"2021-08-18T07:14:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T07:14:27","slug":"medvedev-giorgi-win-canada-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/08\/18\/medvedev-giorgi-win-canada-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev, Giorgi win Canada titles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"535\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/q2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"559\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/q2-1.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/?attachment_id=559\" class=\"wp-image-559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/q2-1.jpg 535w, https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/q2-1-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"413\" src=\"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/q1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"558\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/q1.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/?attachment_id=558\" class=\"wp-image-558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/q1.jpg 734w, https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/q1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/q1-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Toronto, Aug 16 (Agencies): Daniil Medvedev and Camila Giorgi capped impressive weeks in Canada &#8211; and laid down markers for the coming weeks on US hard courts &#8211; by taking the titles in Toronto and Montreal respectively.<br>Medvedev reinforced his status as one of the sport\u2019s premier hard-court players, as well as one of the biggest favourites for the US Open, with victory at the ATP Toronto Masters.<br>Also on Sunday, Giorgi reminded everyone of her elite-level abilities with a stunning victory at the WTA 1000 event in Montreal.<br>The Italian beat No.4 seed Karolina Pliskova 6-3 7-5 to win the biggest title of her career, completing a giant-killing week with the loss of just one set.<br>Medvedev was similarly dominant in Toronto, beating Reilly Opelka for the fourth time in five meetings thanks to a 6-4 6-3 triumph.<br>It came a day after he dismantled a similarly tall, big-serving American in John Isner, a match during which he surrendered just four games and completed in a brisk 54 minutes.<br>The world No.2 continues to produce his best during the North American summer hard-court season.<br>He reached the final of the last edition of the Canadian Masters, in Montreal in 2019, before going on to win the Cincinnati Masters and the US Open final that same year.<br>In 2020, he returned to the US Open semifinals, and has now claimed his fourth ATP Masters title \u2013 all of which have come on hard courts \u2013 with his latest success in Canada.<br>\u201cWith Masters, with Novak and Rafael playing, it seemed like an untouchable achievement. Now I have four wins in five finals, which is a good score,\u201d said Medvedev, who committed only 13 unforced errors to Opelka\u2019s 34.<br>\u201cI\u2019m just happy. I want to achieve more, I want to play better.\u201d<br>Despite the loss it was an impressive week for Opelka, who beat Nick Kyrgios, Grigor Dimitrov, Lloyd Harris, Roberto Bautista Agut and Stefanos Tsitsipas to reach his first ATP Masters final.<br>Giorgi, meanwhile, has been a player on tennis fans\u2019 radar for years, dating back to when she stunned world No.8 Caroline Wozniacki in the third round of the 2013 US Open as a qualifier ranked outside the top 100.<br>Since then she has increased her tally of victories against top-10 opponents to 12, and been ranked as high as 26th, but had never displayed consistency to match her powerful, high-risk ball striking.<br>She dropped her only set of the tournament to Jessica Pegula in the semifinals, and beat seeds Elise Mertens, Petra Kvitova, Coco Gauff and Pliskova to win just the third title of her career \u2013 and by far the biggest.<br>Ranked No.71, Giorgi is projected to return to the top 35 as she continues to build on a purple patch of form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto, Aug 16 (Agencies): Daniil Medvedev and Camila Giorgi capped impressive weeks in Canada &#8211; and laid down markers for the coming weeks on US hard courts &#8211; by taking the titles in Toronto and Montreal respectively.Medvedev reinforced his status as one of the sport\u2019s premier hard-court players, as well as one of the biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}