{"id":5091,"date":"2013-11-11T00:52:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T00:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=5091"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:58:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:58:15","slug":"nadal-denies-federer-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/nadal-denies-federer-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadal Denies Federer in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WTF-SF-Nadal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5083 alignnone\" alt=\"WTF SF - Nadal\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WTF-SF-Nadal.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WTF-SF-Nadal.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/WTF-SF-Nadal-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 32nd meeting of this storied rivalry, Rafael Nadal prevailed over Roger Federer, 7-5, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>The first semifinal of the day started with each man playing well and holding serve. \u00a0They traded breaks three times in succession in the 9th-11th games of the set, which Nadal served out at 6-5. The second set was more squarely on Nadal, who broke Federer&#8217;s serve in the 6th game, and again with the Swiss serving in the final game at 3-5, to close out the match. \u00a0It was the Spaniard&#8217;s first win over the former No. 1 on indoor hard courts.<\/p>\n<p>This was Federer&#8217;s 12th consecutive year playing in the ATP World Tour Finals, which he has won six times. \u00a0For Nadal, it is his fifth appearance, and only his second time to make the finals. \u00a0He lost in the finals to Federer in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: \u00a0Marianne\u00a0Bevis (Creative Commons License)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 32nd meeting of this storied rivalry, Rafael Nadal prevailed over Roger Federer, 7-5, 6-3. The first semifinal of the day started with each man playing well and holding serve. \u00a0They traded breaks three times in succession in the 9th-11th games of the set, which Nadal served out at 6-5. The second set was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[464,78,123,462],"class_list":["post-5091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-barclays-atp-world-tour-finals","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-roger-federer","tag-world-tour-finals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}