{"id":23701,"date":"2018-03-04T11:51:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T11:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=23701"},"modified":"2018-03-04T11:51:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T11:51:26","slug":"roberto-bautista-agut-downs-lucas-pouille-to-win-dubai-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/roberto-bautista-agut-downs-lucas-pouille-to-win-dubai-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Bautista Agut downs Lucas Pouille to win Dubai final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Third-seed Roberto Bautista Agut defeated France\u2019s Lucas Pouille 6-3 6-4 in the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Saturday to secure his first ATP 500 title.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista Agut, who won the Auckland Classic title in January, controlled the match from the start and took a 3-1 lead and the 29-year-old held on to capture the first set.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard, who dropped just one set on his way to the final, maintained his momentum in the second to outclass Pouille and win his eighth career title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis tournament is very special. It is for sure going to be (always) in my heart and I am so happy I have won a 500 event,\u201d Bautista Agut said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLucas is a really great player, he has a great future and is playing unbelievable tennis in the last month. I want to wish him good luck for the rest of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Second-seed Pouille, competing in his third ATP final in four events, also lost a chance to move into the top 10 for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista Agut is expected to climb to world number 16 when the updated rankings are released on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third-seed Roberto Bautista Agut defeated France\u2019s Lucas Pouille 6-3 6-4 in the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Saturday to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23703,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701\/revisions\/23703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}