{"id":75162,"date":"2026-06-21T12:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/cerundolo-fights-back-in-marathon-three-hour-queens-final-to-defeat-paul\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T12:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:56:37","slug":"cerundolo-fights-back-in-marathon-three-hour-queens-final-to-defeat-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/cerundolo-fights-back-in-marathon-three-hour-queens-final-to-defeat-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Cer\u00fandolo fights back in marathon three-hour Queen\u2019s final to defeat Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Argentinian\u2019s 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3 triumph biggest of his career<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Gruelling match is the longest Queen\u2019s Club final<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All week at the Queen\u2019s Club, Francisco Cer\u00fandolo has had an unlikely guest in his players\u2019 box: the No 10 Argentina shirt of Diego Maradona. And on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Hand of God, Cer\u00fandolo summoned tennis from the heavens to lift the biggest trophy of his career.<\/p>\n<p>But after fending off the American Tommy Paul 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3 in an epic that lasted a record three hours and two minutes, Cer\u00fandolo said he had been inspired by another of his heroes: his father, Alejandro, who had flown to London to see him win.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/21\/francisco-cerundolo-tommy-paul-queens-club-longest-final-tennis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentinian\u2019s 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3 triumph biggest of his career Gruelling match is the longest Queen\u2019s Club final All week at the Queen\u2019s Club, Francisco Cer\u00fandolo has had an unlikely guest in his players\u2019 box: the No 10 Argentina shirt of Diego Maradona. And on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the Hand of &#8230; <a title=\"Cer\u00fandolo fights back in marathon three-hour Queen\u2019s final to defeat Paul\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/21\/cerundolo-fights-back-in-marathon-three-hour-queens-final-to-defeat-paul\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cer\u00fandolo fights back in marathon three-hour Queen\u2019s final to defeat Paul\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}