{"id":13738,"date":"2026-04-30T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/13738\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:31:09","slug":"casper-ruud-vs-alexander-blockx-madrid-open-2026-belgian-prodigy-stuns-defending-champ-in-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/13738\/","title":{"rendered":"Casper Ruud Vs Alexander Blockx, Madrid Open 2026: Belgian Prodigy Stuns Defending Champ In Quarter-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"w-100 story-hero-img lazy-load\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP26120465003056.jpg\"   alt=\"Casper Ruud vs Alexader Blockx match report Madrid Open 2026 quarter-final\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"w-100 story-hero-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP26120465003056.jpg\"   alt=\"Casper Ruud vs Alexader Blockx match report Madrid Open 2026 quarter-final\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Blockx of Belgium returns the ball to Casper Ruud of Norway during the quarterfinal match at the Madrid Open tennis tournament in Madrid, Thursday, April 30, 2026. | Photo: AP\/Jose Breton<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Blockx of Belgium returns the ball to Casper Ruud of Norway during the quarterfinal match at the Madrid Open tennis tournament in Madrid, Thursday, April 30, 2026. | Photo: AP\/Jose Breton<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"icon-img-ht lazy-load\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/info_icon.png\" alt=\"info_icon\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"icon-img-ht\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/info_icon.png\" alt=\"info_icon\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Blockx of Belgium returns the ball to Casper Ruud of Norway during the quarterfinal match at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[9345,7,9344,9340,9346,9342,9341,9343,9347,9349,9350,9348,4033],"class_list":["post-13738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-alexander-blocks","tag-belgium","tag-casper-ruud","tag-casper-ruud-vs-alexander-blockx","tag-casper-ruud-vs-alexander-blockx-madrid-open","tag-casper-ruud-vs-alexander-blockx-results","tag-casper-ruud-vs-alexander-blockx-score","tag-casper-ruud-vs-alexander-blockx-winner","tag-madrid-open-2026","tag-madrid-open-2026-results","tag-madrid-open-2026-score","tag-madrid-open-quarter-final","tag-tennis"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116496268441652874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}