{"id":14077,"date":"2025-10-29T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/medvedev-kickstarts-paris-masters-campaign-with-comfortable-win-over-munar\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:43","slug":"medvedev-kickstarts-paris-masters-campaign-with-comfortable-win-over-munar","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/medvedev-kickstarts-paris-masters-campaign-with-comfortable-win-over-munar\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev kickstarts Paris Masters campaign with comfortable win over Munar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The 2020 Paris Masters champion began briskly on the vast centre court of the event&#8217;s new La Defense Arena home, claiming the opening set in under half-an-hour. Eleventh seed Medvedev then secured the crucial break in the sixth game of the second set and served out to set up a second-round meeting with Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Earlier, Canadian ninth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime kept alive his hopes of qualifying for the ATP Finals in Turin with a comeback 6-7 (2\/7), 6-3, 6-3 victory over Argentinian Francisco Comesana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Auger-Aliassime is ninth in the race for the eight-place tournament and needs a deep run in the French capital to make his second career appearance at the season-ending tournament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14078,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-14077","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Former world Number 1, Daniil Medvedev kick started his campaign at the Paris Masters yesterday with a comfortable 6-1, 6-3 win over Spaniard Jaume Munar","published_date":"2025-10-29 00:00:00","news_description":"Former world Number 1, Daniil Medvedev kick started his campaign at the Paris Masters yesterday with a comfortable 6-1, 6-3 win over Spaniard Jaume Munar","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14077","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\/14077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18902,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14077\/revisions\/18902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}