{"id":8264,"date":"2021-06-21T15:07:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=8264"},"modified":"2021-06-21T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T09:37:23","slug":"berrettini-gets-better-of-norrie-at-queens-final-for-becker-like-perfect-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2021\/06\/21\/berrettini-gets-better-of-norrie-at-queens-final-for-becker-like-perfect-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Berrettini Gets Better of Norrie at Queen&#8217;s Final for Becker-Like Perfect Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Top seed Matteo Berrettini of Italy defeated home favourite Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3 to become the first player to win the Queen&#8217;s Club Championships on debut since 17-year-old Boris Becker of Germany in 1985.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 25-year-old Berrettini, ranked ninth in the world, did not face a break point in the final to triumph after one hour and 57 minutes yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;(It was an) unbelievable week. If I think about (Boris&#8217;) name and my name, it&#8217;s crazy. I was dreaming about playing this tournament. I was watching (it) when I was a kid and now I had the chance to lift the trophy, so it&#8217;s a dream come true,&#8221; Berrettini 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The champion had previously claimed four ATP Tour trophies, but none had come above the ATP 250-level. This is Berrettini&#8217;s maiden ATP 500 triumph.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;It was definitely a really good week. When you win a tournament, it means that you&#8217;re playing good. But I think during the tournament, after every match I was increasing my level,&#8221; Berrettini said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I think today I had to play my best tennis, especially in the important points, to win&#8230; I&#8217;m really happy with my performance overall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Berrettini enjoyed a fine run throughout the tournament, lifting the trophy with the loss of just one set. The Italian, who also defeated former world No. 1 Andy Murray, current British No. 1 Daniel Evans and fourth seed Alex de Minaur this week, is the first Italian in the Open Era to win this title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed Matteo Berrettini of Italy defeated home favourite Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3 to become the first player to win the Queen&#8217;s Club Championships on debut since 17-year-old Boris Becker of Germany in 1985. The 25-year-old Berrettini, ranked ninth in the world, did not face a break point in the final to triumph after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8264","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\/8264","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=8264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8266,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions\/8266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}