{"id":3150,"date":"2013-08-14T10:31:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T10:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:05:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:05:12","slug":"back-to-the-future-roger-reverts-to-his-old-racquet-and-wins-in-cincinatti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/back-to-the-future-roger-reverts-to-his-old-racquet-and-wins-in-cincinatti\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Future! Roger reverts to his old racquet and wins in Cincinnati."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five-time winner of the Cincinnati Masters event, Roger Federer proceeded into the third round of the Western &amp; Southern Open by defeating Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets (6\/3 7\/6).<\/p>\n<p>Federer had been testing a new 98-square-inch head racquet following an early Wimbledon exit, but reverted to his usual 90-square-inch Wilson for his opening match against Kohlschreiber.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to do more racquet testing when I have, again, some more time after the US Open. I was playing for a month with the black one, but it&#8217;s a prototype. At the end, I just felt like, you know what, right now I feel like I need to simplify everything and just play with what I know best,&#8221; stated Federer in the post-match interview.<\/p>\n<p>The former world number 1 and 17-time major winner also announced he&#8217;d got through the match without any back pain. He has been suffering from recurrent back spasms during the year.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=745\"><strong>Discuss the\u00a0Cincinnati\u00a0Open with fellow tennis fans in our discussion forum.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-time winner of the Cincinnati Masters event, Roger Federer proceeded into the third round of the Western &amp; Southern Open by defeating Philipp Kohlschreiber in straight sets (6\/3 7\/6). Federer had been testing a new 98-square-inch head racquet following an early Wimbledon exit, but reverted to his usual 90-square-inch Wilson for his opening match against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[781,326,324,123,779],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-atp","tag-masters","tag-racquet","tag-roger-federer","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}