{"id":5932,"date":"2014-02-17T01:39:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T01:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=5932"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:56:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:56:53","slug":"nishikori-repeats-in-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/nishikori-repeats-in-memphis\/","title":{"rendered":"Nishikori Repeats in Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9226013272_789df3a694_z-e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5926 alignnone\" alt=\"Kei Nishikori\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9226013272_789df3a694_z-e.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9226013272_789df3a694_z-e.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9226013272_789df3a694_z-e-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Kei Nishikori defeated the big-serving Croat Ivo Karlovic, 6-4, 7-6(0) today in Memphis to successfully defend his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/Tennis\/Tournaments\/Memphis.aspx\">U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing to defend a title for the first time, especially here,&#8221; Nishikori said. &#8220;I had a great memory from last year and I&#8217;m playing great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The win gave Nishikori his fourth ATP World Tour title. \u00a0He has taken Michael Chang as his new coach and improves to 11-2 this season.<\/p>\n<p>Nishikori secured an early break in the third game of the match and despite 20 aces from Karlovic, he took the second-set tiebreak at love, and the final in 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s really fast,&#8221; Karlovic said. &#8220;He hits winners from any position on the court. That&#8217;s his game. He returned really well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): Marianne Bevis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s Kei Nishikori defeated the big-serving Croat Ivo Karlovic, 6-4, 7-6(0) today in Memphis to successfully defend his\u00a0U.S. National Indoor Tennis Championships. &#8220;It&#8217;s amazing to defend a title for the first time, especially here,&#8221; Nishikori said. &#8220;I had a great memory from last year and I&#8217;m playing great.&#8221; The win gave Nishikori his fourth ATP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[780,19,536,537],"class_list":["post-5932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-ivo-karlovic","tag-kei-nishikori","tag-memphis","tag-us-national-indoor-tennis-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932","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=5932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}