{"id":22038,"date":"2018-02-15T12:24:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T12:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=22038"},"modified":"2018-02-15T12:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T12:24:30","slug":"kei-nishikori-dominant-in-second-round-win-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/kei-nishikori-dominant-in-second-round-win-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Kei Nishikori dominant in second round win in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s Kei Nishikori continued his smooth progress in his first ATP Tour event since August, brushing past Russia\u2019s Evgeny Donskoy 6-2 6-4 in the second round of the inaugural New York Open on Wednesday. The Japanese fifth seed, who won his opening match in straight sets a day earlier, was in full control from the start and hit seven aces during the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Nishikori broke Donskoy\u2019s service twice in the opening set to pull away and then earned another crucial break with the second set tied at 2-2. The 28-year-old won 84 percent of his service points. It was another positive step for Nishikori, who last August suffered a right wrist injury which forced him to miss last year\u2019s US Open and the Australian Open at the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The former US Open finalist has since made his comeback to competition by playing in Challenger events.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s Kei Nishikori continued his smooth progress in his first ATP Tour event since August, brushing past Russia\u2019s Evgeny Donskoy 6-2 6-4 in the second round of the inaugural New York Open on Wednesday. The Japanese fifth seed, who won his opening match in straight sets a day earlier, was in full control from the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22040,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038\/revisions\/22040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}