{"id":170464,"date":"2021-08-30T00:12:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T18:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=170464"},"modified":"2021-08-30T00:12:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T18:42:02","slug":"ivashka-beats-ymer-in-winston-salem-open-for-1st-tour-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/30\/ivashka-beats-ymer-in-winston-salem-open-for-1st-tour-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivashka beats Ymer in Winston-Salem Open for 1st tour title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Winston-Salem, Aug 29 (AP) Ilya Ivashka beat Mikael Ymer 6-0, 6-2 in the Winston-Salem Open to become the first player from Belarus to win an ATP Tour singles title in 18 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ranked 63rd in the world, the 27-year-old Ivashka is the lowest-ranked champion in the event&#8217;s 10-year history, and the sixth player this season ranked outside the top 50 to win an ATP Tour title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Max Mirnyi was the last Belarusian winner in 2003 at Rotterdam<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ivashka lost only one set in six tournament matches, with that one coming in the second round. He beat top-seeded Pablo Carreno Busta in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ivashka held serve throughout the final while breaking Ymer three times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 22-year-old Ymer, ranked 90th, was the first player from Sweden to reach an ATP Tour singles final since 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hard-court tournament is a tune-up event for the U.S. Open, the year&#8217;s last Grand Slam tournament that starts Monday in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winston-Salem, Aug 29 (AP) Ilya Ivashka beat Mikael Ymer 6-0, 6-2 in the Winston-Salem Open to become the first player from Belarus to win an ATP Tour singles title in 18 years. Ranked 63rd in the world, the 27-year-old Ivashka is the lowest-ranked champion in the event&#8217;s 10-year history, and the sixth player this season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-170464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}