{"id":7503,"date":"2014-07-28T03:46:13","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T03:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=7503"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:54:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:54:16","slug":"isner-repeats-in-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/isner-repeats-in-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"Isner Repeats in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/14421700960_ea65036e09_z-e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7483 alignnone\" alt=\"John Isner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/14421700960_ea65036e09_z-e.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/14421700960_ea65036e09_z-e.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/14421700960_ea65036e09_z-e-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/14421700960_ea65036e09_z-e-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/14421700960_ea65036e09_z-e-500x266.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Isner won his ninth career title on Sunday, defending his win last year at the BB&amp;T Atlanta Open, by defeating Israel&#8217;s Dudi Sela, 6-3, 6-4. \u00a0The U.S. No. 1 player, with arguably the best serve in the men&#8217;s game today, was playing probably the best returner in the tournament. However, Isner broke Sela immediately in the first set, and only a bit later in the second, which gave him comfortable control of the match to the end.<\/p>\n<p>The doubles were an all-North American affair, with Vasek Pospisil of Canada and Jack Sock of the U.S. defeating Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey, both of the U.S., 6-3, 5-7, 10-5.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): Carine06<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Isner won his ninth career title on Sunday, defending his win last year at the BB&amp;T Atlanta Open, by defeating Israel&#8217;s Dudi Sela, 6-3, 6-4. \u00a0The U.S. No. 1 player, with arguably the best serve in the men&#8217;s game today, was playing probably the best returner in the tournament. However, Isner broke Sela immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[267,630,195,196,192,631,307],"class_list":["post-7503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-bbt-atlanta-open","tag-dudi-sela","tag-jack-sock","tag-john-isner","tag-sam-querrey","tag-steve-johnson","tag-vasek-pospisil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503","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=7503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}