{"id":41220,"date":"2018-09-05T11:20:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T11:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=41220"},"modified":"2018-09-06T09:06:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:06:26","slug":"served-with-victory-rafa-through-to-us-open-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/served-with-victory-rafa-through-to-us-open-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Served with victory! Rafa through to US Open semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal won the US Open quarterfinal match against Dominic Thiem on Wednesday, after setting up a rematch of June&#8217;s French Open final, when he crushed the latter in straight sets to win his 17th major.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the match, Nadal had said he will need to raise his game to get past the red-hot Thiem, who reached his first US Open quarter-final when he defeated 2017 US Open runner-up Kevin Anderson in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a fantastic player. He&#8217;s a very powerful player. He&#8217;s a great guy,&#8221; Nadal had told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the world no.1 fought off resistance from Georgia&#8217;s Nikoloz Basilashvili with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-7(6), 6-4 win on Sunday to set up the quarterfinal against Thiem in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal won the US Open quarterfinal match against Dominic Thiem on Wednesday, after setting up a rematch of June&#8217;s French Open final, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41220","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=41220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41222,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41220\/revisions\/41222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}