{"id":18340,"date":"2025-08-03T01:52:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/03\/alexander-zverev-moves-forward-in-toronto-once-his-opponent-retires\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T01:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T05:52:43","slug":"alexander-zverev-moves-forward-in-toronto-once-his-opponent-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/03\/alexander-zverev-moves-forward-in-toronto-once-his-opponent-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Zverev moves forward in Toronto once his opponent retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>TORONTO &#8211; Germany&#8217;s top seed Alexander Zverev led Francisco Cerundo 6-4, 1-0, with 14th seeded Argentina retired from abdominal injury at the National Bank Open on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev moved forward to face Australian defending champion Alexei Popilin in the quarter-finals. Popilin, seeded at 18th, beat the fifth seed Holgar Rune, Denmark 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, in the first night match.<\/p>\n<p>2017 champion Zverev ranked third in the world and earned top seeded with 2023 winner Jannik Sinner and top-ranked Jannik Sinner and second-placed Carlos Alcaraz, skipping the hard court event that will end Thursday. No. 5 Jack Draper and No. 6 Novak Jjokovic also sat there.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev won his 24th tour title in April at Clay in Munich.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Michaelsen arrived in the quarterfinals in the afternoon, topped with American learner Tien 6-3, 6-3. Michaelsen will face Russia&#8217;s 11th seed Karen Khachanov.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8211; Germany&#8217;s top seed Alexander Zverev led Francisco Cerundo 6-4, 1-0, with 14th seeded Argentina retired from abdominal injury at the National Bank Open on Saturday night. Zverev moved forward to face Australian defending champion Alexei Popilin in the quarter-finals. Popilin, seeded at 18th, beat the fifth seed Holgar Rune, Denmark 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[289,144,2370,1177,24,4473,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-18340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-alexander","9":"tag-moves","10":"tag-opponent","11":"tag-retires","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-zverev"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}