{"id":184918,"date":"2022-02-23T00:47:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T19:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=184918"},"modified":"2022-02-23T00:47:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T19:17:39","slug":"zverev-wins-in-latest-ever-finish-to-professional-tennis-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/23\/zverev-wins-in-latest-ever-finish-to-professional-tennis-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Zverev wins in latest-ever finish to professional tennis match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ACAPULCO, 22 Feb: Alexander Zverev edged to victory over Jenson Brooksby in Acapulco early Tuesday morning in the latest-ever finish to a professional tennis match.<br \/>\nThe Olympic champion saved two match points before completing a 3-6, 7-6 (12\/10), 6-2 win at 4:54 am local time (1054 GMT).<br \/>\nThe first-round tie at the ATP event lasted three hours and 19 minutes, the third match of Monday&#8217;s schedule to pass the three-hour mark.<br \/>\nThe previous latest finish was a 2008 Australian Open match between Lleyton Hewitt and Marcos Baghdatis that concluded at 4:34 am.<br \/>\nZverev and Brooksby were still playing when a doubles match, scheduled for Tuesday, had already finished in Dubai, which is 10 hours ahead of Acapulco.<br \/>\nAmerican Brooksby took the opening set but saw two match points come and go in the second-set tie-break.<br \/>\nZverev eventually forced a decider on his fifth set point, winning a set that took 111 minutes.<br \/>\nDespite appearing to suffer from a cramp, the German world number three managed to find two breaks of serve in the third set. (AFP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACAPULCO, 22 Feb: Alexander Zverev edged to victory over Jenson Brooksby in Acapulco early Tuesday morning in the latest-ever finish to a professional tennis match. The Olympic champion saved two match points before completing a 3-6, 7-6 (12\/10), 6-2 win at 4:54 am local time (1054 GMT). The first-round tie at the ATP event lasted [&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-184918","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\/184918","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=184918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}