{"id":8873,"date":"2025-06-21T19:19:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/daniil-medvedev-faces-bublik-in-halle-final-and-defeats-zverev\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T19:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:19:49","slug":"daniil-medvedev-faces-bublik-in-halle-final-and-defeats-zverev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/daniil-medvedev-faces-bublik-in-halle-final-and-defeats-zverev\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev faces Bublik in Halle Final and defeats Zverev"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Daniil Medvedev finished the glory hopes of the family&#8217;s favourite Alexander Zverev grass court with a 7-6 (3), 6-7 (1), 6-4 victory on the semi-final Saturday of the Halle Open.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev recovered from wasting three match points with Zverev&#8217;s serve 5-6 in the second set, taking over his old rival nearly three hours to reach his first final in 15 months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I got my second break, I might have done much better, but that&#8217;s normal,&#8221; Medvedev said. &#8220;The same thing happened in the third set. When I took a break, he started playing better and went back better. In the third set, I&#8217;m glad that I managed to save those breakpoints and managed to make up and manage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev&#8217;s fourth straight victory over Zverev extended the lead to 13-7.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian player will face Alexander Babrik, who defeated top-ranked Janik Sinner in the final on Sunday. 2023 champion Bublik fired 18 aces after beating Karen Khachanov 4-6, 7-6 (5) and 6-4 in the other semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was the biggest title of my career here, but now I have a shot in my second career,&#8221; Bublik said.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev has not played in the final since losing to Indian Wells&#8217; Carlos Alcaraz in March 2024. Whatever the result of the final, Medvedev will return to the top ten in the world on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev, who had been bidding to reach the Hale Finals for the third time, will have to wait for his first title in Grass.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to the report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniil Medvedev finished the glory hopes of the family&#8217;s favourite Alexander Zverev grass court with a 7-6 (3), 6-7 (1), 6-4 victory on the semi-final Saturday of the Halle Open. Medvedev recovered from wasting three match points with Zverev&#8217;s serve 5-6 in the second set, taking over his old rival nearly three hours to reach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2772,2771,27,112,63,2773,2683,24,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-8873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-bublik","9":"tag-daniil","10":"tag-defeats","11":"tag-faces","12":"tag-final","13":"tag-halle","14":"tag-medvedev","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-zverev"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873","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=8873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}