{"id":13431,"date":"2025-10-19T16:26:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T14:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/medvedev-ends-882-day-title-drought-with-almaty-open-win\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:23","slug":"medvedev-ends-882-day-title-drought-with-almaty-open-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/medvedev-ends-882-day-title-drought-with-almaty-open-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev ends 882-day title drought with Almaty Open win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Medvedev, 29, last won a title at the Italian Open in May 2023 and has lost six finals since, including at the United States (US) Open and Australian Open. &#8220;It continues my funny story of 21 titles in 21 different cities,&#8221; former US Open champion Medvedev said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev, ranked 14th in the world, struggled with unforced errors against Frenchman Moutet, who was chasing his maiden ATP title.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Russian made 13 unforced errors in the first two sets, while Moutet had only fou,r but Medvedev served three aces in the decider and held his nerve to prevail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was not super happy with how I played in some moments of the match, but to win feels amazing. In the most important points I played good,&#8221; Medvedev said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13432,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13431","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Former world number one Daniil Medvedev ended an 882-day wait for his 21st ATP Tour title on the ATP tour when he beat Corentin Moutet 7-5 4-6 6-3 in the Almaty Open final on Sunday.||Former world number one Daniil Medvedev ended an 882-day wait for his 21st ATP Tour title on the ATP tour when he beat Corentin Moutet 7-5 4-6 6-3 in the Almaty Open final on Sunday.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Former world number one Daniil Medvedev ended an 882-day wait for his 21st ATP Tour title on the ATP tour when he beat Corentin Moutet 7-5 4-6 6-3 in the Almaty Open final on Sunday.||Former world number one Daniil Medvedev ended an 882-day wait for his 21st ATP Tour title on the ATP tour when he beat Corentin Moutet 7-5 4-6 6-3 in the Almaty Open final on Sunday.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18555,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13431\/revisions\/18555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}