{"id":11324,"date":"2025-03-01T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dubai-tennis-championships-stefanos-tsitsipas-beats-felix-auger-aliassime-to-claim-maiden-title\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T21:49:00","slug":"dubai-tennis-championships-stefanos-tsitsipas-beats-felix-auger-aliassime-to-claim-maiden-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dubai-tennis-championships-stefanos-tsitsipas-beats-felix-auger-aliassime-to-claim-maiden-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Tennis Championships: Stefanos Tsitsipas beats Felix Auger-Aliassime to claim maiden title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Stefanos Tsitsipas secured a maiden ATP 500 title with a straight-set victory over Felix Auger-Aliassime in the final of the Dubai Tennis Championships. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 26-year-old Greek produced a strong performance to beat his in-form Canadian opponent 6-3 6-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fourth seed had reached the final of the tournament twice before, losing to Novak Djokovic in 2019 and then again to Roger Federer a year later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Saturday&#8217;s win was world number 11 Tsitsipas&#8217; 12th tour-level title, and the biggest outdoor hard-court trophy of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He defeated 24-year-old Auger-Aliassime &#8211; who is leading the ATP Tour this season with 16 match wins and two titles &#8211; in one hour and 28 minutes, and will return to the top 10 of the world rankings on Monday for the first time since May 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cm2yexv87rno\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas secured a maiden ATP 500 title with a straight-set victory over Felix Auger-Aliassime in the final of the Dubai Tennis Championships. The 26-year-old Greek produced a strong performance to beat his in-form Canadian opponent 6-3 6-3. The fourth seed had reached the final of the tournament twice before, losing to Novak Djokovic in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11326,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11324\/revisions\/11326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}