{"id":5919,"date":"2014-02-17T01:06:41","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T01:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=5919"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:56:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:56:53","slug":"ferrer-makes-history-in-buenos-aires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/ferrer-makes-history-in-buenos-aires\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferrer Makes History in Buenos Aires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/11206453573_e00dba2074_z-e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5924 alignnone\" alt=\"David Ferrer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/11206453573_e00dba2074_z-e.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/11206453573_e00dba2074_z-e.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/11206453573_e00dba2074_z-e-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Ferrer became the first player to win three consecutive titles at the Copa Claro in Argentina today, defeating Fabio Fognini 6-4, 6-3. \u00a0The win gives him a 7-0 head-to-head over the Italian. It also snapped a run of losses in finals by the Spaniard (his previous seven), while ending what has been a very good run of fortune for the Italian.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrer led 3-0 to start the final, before Fognini evened things to 3-3. The Spaniard broke to win the first set, and broke again at the start of the second.<\/p>\n<p>Fognini was contesting the final for a fifth straight clay-court tournament and looking to win his fourth title. He triumphed last week at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/Tennis\/Tournaments\/Vina-del-Mar.aspx\">Royal Guard Open Chile<\/a>, the opening tournament of the Golden Swing, and entered Buenos Aires at a career-high No. 14 in the Emirates ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s loss snapped Fognini&#8217;s 10-match winning streak and marked just his second loss in his last 25 clay-court matches. \u00a0For Ferrer, who goes back up to No. 4 on Monday, this is his 21st career title, 11 of those coming on clay.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): Marianne Bevis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Ferrer became the first player to win three consecutive titles at the Copa Claro in Argentina today, defeating Fabio Fognini 6-4, 6-3. \u00a0The win gives him a 7-0 head-to-head over the Italian. It also snapped a run of losses in finals by the Spaniard (his previous seven), while ending what has been a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[540,534,117,81],"class_list":["post-5919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-buenos-aires","tag-copa-claro","tag-david-ferrer","tag-fabio-fognini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919","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=5919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}