{"id":8870,"date":"2014-10-12T06:56:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T10:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=8870"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:52:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:52:33","slug":"federer-shines-in-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/federer-shines-in-shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"Federer Shines in Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/14970725455_83b28dc21a_b-e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8867\" alt=\"Roger Federer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/14970725455_83b28dc21a_b-e.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/14970725455_83b28dc21a_b-e.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/14970725455_83b28dc21a_b-e-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/14970725455_83b28dc21a_b-e-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/14970725455_83b28dc21a_b-e-500x266.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roger Federer beat Gilles Simon on Sunday to win the Shanghai Rolex Masters 1000. Final score: 7-6(6), 7-6(2), in just under two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Federer&#8217;s serve was broken in the first game, and despite serving in the 30% range, Simon managed to hold to get to 5-3. Serving for the set, the Frenchman went down 15-40. On the second break point, Federer was finally able to get back on serve, and leveled the match at 5-5.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=3047\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to discuss the Federer\/Simon final, and the rest of the Shanghai Masters 1000, in our discussion forum.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Serving at 5-6, Simon quickly found himself down 15-40, but the Swiss was unable to capitalize on either set point, sending the match to a tiebreak. After an exchange of mini-breaks, Simon had a set point, but couldn&#8217;t convert. On his third set point, Federer hit a backhand passing shot, taking the tiebreak 8-6.<\/p>\n<p>Simon saved three breakpoints in the third game of the second set, but the rest of the set was rather routine. Serving at 5-6, Federer saved two set points before finally holding, taking the match to another tiebreak. He quickly got up 6-2, and closed it out on his first championship point.<\/p>\n<p>The win gives Federer his 81st title, and 23rd Masters 1000.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer beat Gilles Simon on Sunday to win the Shanghai Rolex Masters 1000. Final score: 7-6(6), 7-6(2), in just under two hours. Federer&#8217;s serve was broken in the first game, and despite serving in the 30% range, Simon managed to hold to get to 5-3. Serving for the set, the Frenchman went down 15-40. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[650,123,649,420],"class_list":["post-8870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-gilles-simon","tag-roger-federer","tag-shanghai","tag-shanghai-masters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}