{"id":4425,"date":"2013-09-23T04:08:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T04:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:03:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:03:30","slug":"gilles-simon-triumphs-at-the-open-de-moselle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/gilles-simon-triumphs-at-the-open-de-moselle\/","title":{"rendered":"Gilles Simon Triumphs at the Open de Moselle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gilles Simon defeated fellow frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to win the Open de Moselle in Metz 6-4, 6-3 to win his first title of the year and 11th title of his career.<\/p>\n<p>It was Tsonga&#8217;s first tournament back after recovering from an injury at Wimbledon in July. The players were seeded 1 (Tsonga) and 2 (Simon), respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Simon broke Tsonga twice in each set and took advantage of a multitude of unforced errors to seal the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt that I could take my chance and I&#8217;m very happy,&#8221; said Simon, post-match. &#8220;I saw that Jo wasn&#8217;t able to serve at his best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=1081\"><strong>Discuss this article with fellow tennis fans on the Tennis Frontier message board.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><em>Cover Photo: si.robi, Creative Commons License.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gilles Simon defeated fellow frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to win the Open de Moselle in Metz 6-4, 6-3 to win his first title of the year and 11th title of his career. It was Tsonga&#8217;s first tournament back after recovering from an injury at Wimbledon in July. The players were seeded 1 (Tsonga) and 2 (Simon), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[781,386,387,388,779],"class_list":["post-4425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-atp","tag-gilles-simon-jo-wilfried-tsonga","tag-metz","tag-open-de-moselle","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425","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=4425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}