{"id":55355,"date":"2023-03-03T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=55355"},"modified":"2023-03-03T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T14:54:58","slug":"holger-rune-matteo-berrettini-mexican-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/03\/03\/holger-rune-matteo-berrettini-mexican-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Holger Rune Thrashes an Injured Matteo Berrettini at the Mexican Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth seed Holger Rune of Denmark thrashed Matteo Berrettini of Italy 6-0 1-0 in the Mexican Open quarterfinal on Thursday as the latter had to withdraw with a leg injury. Berrettini himself had advanced over <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/05\/02\/marian-vajda-alex-molcan\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Alex Molcan<\/a> with an identical scoreline in the first round of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Dane will face Alex de Minaur in the semifinal on Friday. We will now take a look at how the match progressed:<\/p>\n<h2>How Holger Rune beat Matteo Berrettini in Acapulco<\/h2>\n<h4>Rune had the upper hand from the very beginning:<\/h4>\n<p>Rune dominated from the get-go and his forehand allowed him to dictate the proceedings on most of the occasions. Berrettini&#8217;s not-so-strong backhand helped Rune&#8217;s cause and the Italian mostly played slices whenever he had to play a shot off his backhand. Rune capitalized on it and ventured forward into the net repeatedly to dispatch volley winners.<\/p>\n<p>The Dane broke Berrettini thrice in the first set and never lost his serve to mark his absolute dominance. It is not often that a top player like Berrettini gets bageled. However, Thursday was one of the rare occasions.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"uWZbubsBROlrCovp3txxmw\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1470875944\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'uWZbubsBROlrCovp3txxmw',sig:'HL9RTQ1pmTsc3ryL4KsxIgtt1WbW6xRf4AAFUtOgDl0=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1470875944',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Matteo Berrettini&#8217;s movement was stifled, and he had to withdraw in the end:<\/h4>\n<p>Berrettini found it a bit difficult to move and often failed to get to the forehands played by Rune. It meant that Rune succeeded in hitting a lot of winners in the first set. Rune&#8217;s inside-in forehand won him a couple of points in the first game of the second set, too, as the Dane held the game to love.<\/p>\n<p>A rain delay followed, and Berrettini decided to withdraw because of his injury after the conditions were back to normal. It was a complete mismatch on the day, as Rune won without any trouble and set up a showdown with De Minaur.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Mike Frey-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth seed Holger Rune of Denmark thrashed Matteo Berrettini of Italy 6-0 1-0 in the Mexican Open quarterfinal on Thursday as the latter had to withdraw with a leg injury. Berrettini himself had advanced over Alex Molcan with an identical scoreline in the first round of the tournament. The 19-year-old Dane will face Alex de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4311,"featured_media":55228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7605,1694],"class_list":["post-55355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","tag-holger-rune","tag-matteo-berrettini"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}