{"id":8261,"date":"2021-06-21T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T09:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=8261"},"modified":"2021-06-21T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T09:30:14","slug":"humbert-fights-through-fatigue-to-weather-rublev-barrage-for-halle-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2021\/06\/21\/humbert-fights-through-fatigue-to-weather-rublev-barrage-for-halle-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Humbert Fights Through Fatigue to Weather Rublev Barrage for Halle Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frenchman Ugo Humbert overcame fourth-seeded Russian Andrey Rublev 6-3, 7-6 (4) to clinch his maiden ATP 500 title at the Noventi Open in Halle, Germany.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The world No. 31 is now 3-0 in ATP Tour finals. The Frenchman had lifted trophies at the European Open in Antwerp and the ASB Classic in Auckland, both ATP 250 events, last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;It is incredible. It is the best victory of my career. I am very proud because it wasn&#8217;t easy. I was a little bit tired, but I tried to stay focused on each point, and did what I could, so it is very nice,&#8221; Humbert told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/atptour.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/atptour.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624350886865000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEAooBRFt0Mojaoygjtc3Yad5wOCg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">atptour.com<\/a>\u00a0after the match yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I tried to stay aggressive and take the ball early because in the baseline rallies it was tough, because Andrey was hitting the ball very hard. Physically, it was tough, and I tried to take my chances when I could, and I won.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Humbert won 85 per cent of points on his first serve and hit nine aces to win the title in 87 minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Humbert made the crucial breakthrough in the eighth game of the opening set as the 22-year-old began to dictate with his aggressive forehand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Frenchman, who hit five aces in the first set, continued to serve well, as he fended off two break points to close out the set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frenchman Ugo Humbert overcame fourth-seeded Russian Andrey Rublev 6-3, 7-6 (4) to clinch his maiden ATP 500 title at the Noventi Open in Halle, Germany. The world No. 31 is now 3-0 in ATP Tour finals. The Frenchman had lifted trophies at the European Open in Antwerp and the ASB Classic in Auckland, both ATP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8263,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8261\/revisions\/8263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}