{"id":5921,"date":"2014-02-17T01:23:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T01:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:56:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:56:53","slug":"berdych-ends-drought-wins-rotterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/berdych-ends-drought-wins-rotterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Berdych Ends Drought; Wins Rotterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9459060483_7e29817d53_z-e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5923 alignnone\" alt=\"Tomas Berdych\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9459060483_7e29817d53_z-e.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9459060483_7e29817d53_z-e.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9459060483_7e29817d53_z-e-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomas Berdych made short work of Marin Cilic today, beating him 6-4, 6-2 to win the ABN AMRO tournament in the Netherlands. \u00a0This is his first trophy in 16 months, having gone all of last season without a title. \u00a0He was the only player in the Top 10 last year without one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It feels absolutely amazing,&#8221; Berdych said. &#8220;It&#8217;s been a while, actually 16 months since I won a title. To win a title in Rotterdam it&#8217;s a nice bonus. I&#8217;m extremely happy with the way I handled it throughout the week. I&#8217;ve been serving pretty well, which has been the strong part of my game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was indeed serving that gave the Czech the advantage. \u00a0He recorded nine aces and had an 82% first serve stat. \u00a0The downfall for Cilic was 22 unforced-errors. \u00a0The match was over in 75 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Cilic, who is newly coached by Goran Ivanisevic, is now 14-4 on the season, a strong start, despite the loss today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a tough one today,&#8221; said Cilic. &#8220;What made the difference in the end was that Tomas served really well &#8230;. Overall I think the tournament was great. I played great tennis and enjoyed it here. I had a great run of nine [straight] wins and I hope to make that run soon again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): Marianne Bevis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomas Berdych made short work of Marin Cilic today, beating him 6-4, 6-2 to win the ABN AMRO tournament in the Netherlands. \u00a0This is his first trophy in 16 months, having gone all of last season without a title. \u00a0He was the only player in the Top 10 last year without one. &#8220;It feels absolutely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[538,205,539,136],"class_list":["post-5921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-abn-amro","tag-marin-cilic","tag-rotterdam","tag-tomas-berdych"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921","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=5921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}