{"id":38993,"date":"2018-08-12T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T11:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=38993"},"modified":"2018-08-12T11:30:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T11:30:34","slug":"rafael-nadal-beats-marin-cilic-to-enter-rogers-cup-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/rafael-nadal-beats-marin-cilic-to-enter-rogers-cup-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal beats Marin Cilic to enter Rogers Cup semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top-seeded Rafael Nadal defeated sixth-seed Marin Cilic 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, to enter semi-finals of the Rogers Cup in Toronto. Meanwhile, Stefanos Tsitsipas pulled off another upset as he saved two match points in a 3-6, 7-6 (11), 6-4 victory over second-seeded defending champion Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev, the German star coming off a victory last week in Washington, double-faulted on match point to send Tsitsipas to his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Tsitsipas beat seventh-seeded Dominic Thiem and ninth-seeded Novak Djokovic to reach the quarterfinals. He&#8217;s the youngest player to beat three top-10 players in one tournament since Rafael Nadal who also was 19 in 2006 at Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas will face fourth-seeded Kevin Anderson in the semifinals, trying to become the youngest to beat four straight top-10 players in an event since the ATP World Tour was established in 1990. Anderson beat fifth-seeded Grigor Dimitrov 6-2, 6-2.<\/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>Top-seeded Rafael Nadal defeated sixth-seed Marin Cilic 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, to enter semi-finals of the Rogers Cup in Toronto. Meanwhile, Stefanos Tsitsipas pulled off another upset as he saved two match points in a 3-6, 7-6 (11), 6-4 victory over second-seeded defending champion Alexander Zverev. Zverev, the German star coming off a victory last week [&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":38994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38993","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\/38993","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=38993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38995,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38993\/revisions\/38995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}