{"id":210159,"date":"2023-02-04T00:57:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T19:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=210159"},"modified":"2023-02-04T00:57:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T19:27:42","slug":"davis-cup-yuki-outplayed-by-rune-india-go-down-0-1-against-denmark-on-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/02\/04\/davis-cup-yuki-outplayed-by-rune-india-go-down-0-1-against-denmark-on-opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup: Yuki outplayed by Rune, India go down 0-1 against Denmark on opening day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hillerod, 3 Feb: It was always a tall task for Yuki Bhambri to counter world number nine Holger Rune and there was no surprise as Denmark&#8217;s top singles player raced to a straight set win to put the hosts up 1-0 in the Davis Cup World Group I Play-off tie against India here Friday.<br \/>\nUp against a formidable rival, Yuki needed a special effort but he went down 2-6 2-6 in mere 58 minutes in the opening singles of the rubber.<br \/>\nThe 19-year-old broke Bhambri twice in each set. Rune converted four of the seven break chances while the Indian did not get a single chance to break his opponent.<br \/>\nRune played percentage tennis while Yuki struggled with his first serve, double faulting four times in the lop-sided contest being played at indoor hard courts.<br \/>\nYuki has quit singles on the ATP Tour.<br \/>\nSumit Nagal, India&#8217;s number one player, will now have to win the second singles against August Holmgren to keep his team in the hunt.<br \/>\nIf India lose this tie, they will be relegated to World Group II. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillerod, 3 Feb: It was always a tall task for Yuki Bhambri to counter world number nine Holger Rune and there was no surprise as Denmark&#8217;s top singles player raced to a straight set win to put the hosts up 1-0 in the Davis Cup World Group I Play-off tie against India here Friday. Up [&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-210159","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\/210159","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=210159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}