{"id":6398,"date":"2022-02-10T08:43:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T08:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6398"},"modified":"2022-02-10T08:43:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T08:43:37","slug":"tennis-andy-murray-marks-return-to-top-100-with-bublik-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6398","title":{"rendered":"Tennis: Andy Murray Marks Return To Top 100 With Bublik Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Andy Murray marked his return to the top 100 for the first time since 2018 with a 7-6 (8\/6), 6-4 win over Kazakhstan\u2019s Alexander Bublik at the Rotterdam tournament on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Former world number one, and three-time major winner, Murray had too much court guile for world number 31 Bublik who won his maiden ATP title in Montpellier at the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThere were some tough moments in the first set for both of us,\u201d said wildcard Murray, now at 95 in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI just managed to come through at the end of it. Some great returns off some big second serves from him at the end and I did a good job.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s not easy playing against someone like that, huge serves, a lot of drop shots and you\u2019ve got to keep your focus and I did that well tonight.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Murray next faces third-seeded\u00a0Felix Auger-Aliassime\u00a0after the Canadian overcame a slow start to beat qualifier\u00a0Egor Gerasimov of Belarus,\u00a03-6, 6-2, 6-2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray marked his return to the top 100 for the first time since 2018 with a 7-6 (8\/6), 6-4 win over Kazakhstan\u2019s Alexander Bublik at the Rotterdam tournament on Wednesday. Former world number one, and three-time major winner, Murray had too much court guile for world number 31 Bublik who won his maiden ATP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3808,3810,42,3809],"class_list":["post-6398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-andy-murray","tag-bublik","tag-tennis","tag-top-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6400,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6398\/revisions\/6400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}