{"id":17051,"date":"2021-06-29T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=118098"},"modified":"2021-06-29T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:30:12","slug":"wimbledon-2021-alexander-zverev-is-through-to-the-second-round-after-overcoming-tallon-griekspoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/wimbledon-2021-alexander-zverev-is-through-to-the-second-round-after-overcoming-tallon-griekspoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2021: Alexander Zverev is through to the second round after overcoming Tallon Griekspoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Zverev defeated Tallon Griekspoor 3-6 4-6 1-6 with a straight sets victory in the first round, to reach into the second round of the Wimbledon tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alexander Zverev marches on in style.<\/p>\n<p>The German makes light work of Tallon Griekspoor in the first round to win 6-3, 6-4, 6-1<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KHGLqrC3MD\">pic.twitter.com\/KHGLqrC3MD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1409876218711875606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fourth seed Alexander Zverev played forcefully and overpowered Dutch qualifier Tallon Griekspoor on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Play was suspended because of rain and the roof was closed on Court One where the German, Zverev led a set and a break, but this did not affect the 24 year old as he continued and dominated with his serves. He <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">hit 20 aces and won 77 percent (33\/48) and broke Griekspoor\u2019s serve six times to advance in 94 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was good to see everything that slowly went back to normal. I was very happy the moment I walked in to see all these people over here. I felt comfortable on the court. There\u2019s a roof now on Court One and it is great.<\/p>\n<p>Wimbledon is such a historic tournament. They keep on getting better. They keep improving for the betterment of players and public. This is the reason why everyone loves this event,\u201d said Zverev.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev was inevitably asked about the football match and he replied, \u201cI am going to get booed about what I am going to give answer, and I won\u2019t be playing here again. I just hope it goes onto the penalties.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Zverev defeated Tallon Griekspoor 3-6 4-6 1-6 with a straight sets victory in the first round, to reach into\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":37798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1466,202,1999,335,250],"class_list":["post-17051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-court","tag-us-open","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}