{"id":207928,"date":"2026-04-17T22:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=207928"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:55:25","slug":"hamad-continues-the-fairy-tale-in-barcelona-serbian-tennis-player-crushed-the-portuguese-and-advanced-to-the-semifinals-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/hamad-continues-the-fairy-tale-in-barcelona-serbian-tennis-player-crushed-the-portuguese-and-advanced-to-the-semifinals-video\/","title":{"rendered":"HAMAD CONTINUES THE FAIRY TALE IN BARCELONA: Serbian tennis player crushed the Portuguese and advanced to the semifinals! (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Hamad Me\u0111edovi\u0107 has qualified for the semifinals of the tournament in Barcelona. He defeated the Portuguese Borges with 7:6 (8:6), 6:2.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A great success for Hamad Me\u0111edovi\u0107 in Barcelona. After eliminating the world number seven, Alex de Minaur (Australia), in the 2nd round, the young tennis player from Novi Pazar advanced to the semifinals by defeating the Portuguese Borges with 7:6 (8:6), 6:2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a place in the final, he will play against the winner of the match between Mach\u00e1\u010d (Czech Republic) \u2013 Rublev (Russia).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Me\u0111edovi\u0107&#8217;s first semifinal of a 500 series tournament in his career, and it has brought him a placement at the 68th spot on the ATP rankings, from his current 88th position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When the reaction matches the shot \ud83d\ude2e\u200d\ud83d\udca8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MedjedovicHamad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MedjedovicHamad<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BCNOpenBS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BCNOpenBS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pULbkEFt1x\">pic.twitter.com\/pULbkEFt1x<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/2045092225286046091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>The first set passed without break opportunities, with secure play on serves from both sides. However, in the very end, Borges reached a set point, but Me\u0111edovi\u0107 responded \u2013 with an ace on his second serve!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the tie-break, the Serb had the lead, then fell into a short crisis, but in the key moments he raised his level of play and with two great points from 6:6 reached the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Portuguese player fell psychologically at the start of the second set, which Me\u0111edovi\u0107 immediately exploited. He made a break at the start of the second set, then a second one for 5:1 and practically settled the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Borges managed to get one break back, but he did not have the strength for a complete comeback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, Me\u0111edovi\u0107 routinely brought the match to a close, used his second match point with a spectacular passing shot, and began a great celebration with his team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;color:#d21414\" class=\"has-inline-color\">MORE TOPICS:<\/mark><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/powerful-explosion-in-the-center-of-vranje-bomb-placed-under-the-jeep-of-a-famous-mma-fighter-police-blocked-the-neighborhood\/\"><strong>POWERFUL EXPLOSION IN THE CENTER OF VRANJE: Bomb placed under the jeep of a famous MMA fighter, police <\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/powerful-explosion-in-the-center-of-vranje-bomb-placed-under-the-jeep-of-a-famous-mma-fighter-police-blocked-the-neighborhood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">b<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/powerful-explosion-in-the-center-of-vranje-bomb-placed-under-the-jeep-of-a-famous-mma-fighter-police-blocked-the-neighborhood\/\"><strong>locked the neighborhood!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/after-tense-elections-and-police-raid-inspection-of-the-ministry-of-education-is-conducting-an-investigation-at-the-faculty-of-medicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>AFTER TENSE ELECTIONS AND POLICE RAID: Inspection of the Ministry of Education is conducting an investigation at the Faculty of Medicine!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/young-man-stabbed-for-no-apparent-reason-in-a-belgrade-bus-attacker-approached-and-plunged-a-knife-into-his-stomach-in-front-of-passengers\/\"><strong>YOUNG MAN STABBED FOR NO APPARENT REASON IN A BELGRADE BUS: Attacker approached and plunged a knife into his <\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/young-man-stabbed-for-no-apparent-reason-in-a-belgrade-bus-attacker-approached-and-plunged-a-knife-into-his-stomach-in-front-of-passengers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">stomach <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/young-man-stabbed-for-no-apparent-reason-in-a-belgrade-bus-attacker-approached-and-plunged-a-knife-into-his-stomach-in-front-of-passengers\/\"><strong>in front of passengers!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/policija-tokom-noci-upala-na-medicinski-fakultet-studenti-u-blokadi-optuzili-kolege-bliske-vlasti-za-kradu-izbora-za-studentski-parlament\/\"><strong>POLICE RAIDED THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE <\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/policija-tokom-noci-upala-na-medicinski-fakultet-studenti-u-blokadi-optuzili-kolege-bliske-vlasti-za-kradu-izbora-za-studentski-parlament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">DURING <\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/policija-tokom-noci-upala-na-medicinski-fakultet-studenti-u-blokadi-optuzili-kolege-bliske-vlasti-za-kradu-izbora-za-studentski-parlament\/\"><strong>THE NIGHT: Students in blockade accused colleagues close to the authorities of stealing elections for the student parliament!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/nba-changed-the-rules-because-of-doncic-here-is-what-they-did-so-that-luka-would-stay-in-the-running-for-the-mvp-award\/\"><strong>NBA CHANGED THE RULES BECAUSE OF <\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/nba-changed-the-rules-because-of-doncic-here-is-what-they-did-so-that-luka-would-stay-in-the-running-for-the-mvp-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">DON\u010cI\u0106<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/nba-changed-the-rules-because-of-doncic-here-is-what-they-did-so-that-luka-would-stay-in-the-running-for-the-mvp-award\/\"><strong>: Here is what they did so that Luka would stay in the running for the MVP award!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/bravo-children-tina-and-sergej-won-bronze-medals-at-the-world-taekwondo-championships-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">BRAVO, CHILDREN! 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After eliminating the world number seven, Alex de Minaur (Australia), in the 2nd round, the young tennis player from Novi Pazar advanced to the semifinals by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":207929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1387,6715,1057,91,113,12324,252,15],"class_list":["post-207928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-barselona","tag-hamad-mededovic","tag-spanija-2","tag-sport","tag-srbija","tag-srpski-teniser","tag-tenis","tag-video","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207957,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207928\/revisions\/207957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}