{"id":5675,"date":"2014-01-22T23:12:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T23:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:57:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:57:20","slug":"federer-defeats-murray-to-set-up-nadal-semi-final-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/federer-defeats-murray-to-set-up-nadal-semi-final-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Federer Defeats Murray to Set Up Nadal Semifinal Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Brisbane-Federer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5272\" alt=\"Brisbane - Federer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Brisbane-Federer.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Brisbane-Federer.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Brisbane-Federer-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roger Federer advanced to the Australian Open semifinals after defeating Britain&#8217;s Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3 in 3 hours and 20 minutes in Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n<p>A revitalised Federer dominated the first two sets and much of the third where he served for the match at 5-4 before Murray gatecrashed the party to break serve and force the set into a tiebreak. The fourth seeded Scot made the most of the opportunity and went on to win the tiebreak after Federer squandered two match points.<\/p>\n<p>The momentum shift was short-lived as Federer regrouped to take the fourth and final set breaking Murray in the eighth game.<\/p>\n<p>Federer will now face old nemesis Rafael Nadal in the semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to it,&#8221; he smiled when asked about renewing hostilities with the Mallorcan World No. 1. It is the first meeting at a Major of the two tennis greats since they met in the semifinals at Melbourne in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><em>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): Marianne Bevis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer advanced to the Australian Open semifinals after defeating Britain&#8217;s Andy Murray 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-3 in 3 hours and 20 minutes in Rod Laver Arena. A revitalised Federer dominated the first two sets and much of the third where he served for the match at 5-4 before Murray gatecrashed the party to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,781,426,78,123],"class_list":["post-5675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-andy-murray","tag-atp","tag-australian-open","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-roger-federer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675","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=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}