{"id":40127,"date":"2018-08-25T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T11:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=40127"},"modified":"2018-08-25T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T11:33:29","slug":"rafael-nadal-confident-ahead-of-us-open-title-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/rafael-nadal-confident-ahead-of-us-open-title-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal confident ahead of US Open title defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal is full of confidence and ready to defend his US Open title, having enjoyed a blockbuster 2017 by claiming the French and US majors after a three-year Grand Slam trophy drought. The world number one told reporters on Friday that his strong performances this season including clinching yet another Roland Garros title in June have given him momentum heading into the fourth major of the year next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s important for the feelings, the confidence,\u201d Nadal said. \u201cI am here just trying to improve every day.\u201d For Nadal, whose record 11 French Open titles have earned himself the moniker King of Clay, trophies on the US Open\u2019s hard courts have been relatively harder to come by. Before 2017, Nadal had won the tournament twice, in 2010 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a semi-final exit at Wimbledon last month, the Spaniard is relying on memories of last year\u2019s win at Flushing Meadows to spur him on. \u201cLast year a very special year. 2015 was not a positive year in terms of tennis,\u201d Nadal said, referring to the period when he struggled for form.<\/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>Rafael Nadal is full of confidence and ready to defend his US Open title, having enjoyed a blockbuster 2017 by claiming the French and US majors after a three-year Grand Slam trophy drought. The world number one told reporters on Friday that his strong performances this season including clinching yet another Roland Garros title in [&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":40128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40127","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\/40127","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=40127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40129,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40127\/revisions\/40129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}