{"id":44358,"date":"2018-10-13T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T11:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=44358"},"modified":"2018-10-13T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T11:43:06","slug":"djokovic-federer-in-shanghai-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/djokovic-federer-in-shanghai-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic, Federer in Shanghai semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai<\/p>\n<p>Roger Federer returned to form to beat Japan\u2019s Kei Nishikori 6-4 7-6(4) and reach the Shanghai Masters semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-times Grand Slam winner has produced a series of lacklustre performances in Shanghai, his first tournament since suffering a shock fourth-round defeat by John Millman at the US Open last month.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he made an aggressive start against Nishikori to take a 4-1 lead in the opening set. Federer held off a late charge from the Japanese to take the opener before recovering from a 1-4 deficit in the second set tiebreak to seal victory. The 37-year-old will next face Croatian Borna Coric, who dumped Matthew Ebden out of the tournament 7-5 6-4. Novak Djokovic beat South African Kevin Anderson 7-6(1) 6-3, setting up a semifinal clash with Germany\u2019s Alexander Zverev, who beat Kyle Edmund 6-4 6-4.<\/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>Shanghai Roger Federer returned to form to beat Japan\u2019s Kei Nishikori 6-4 7-6(4) and reach the Shanghai Masters semifinals. The 20-times Grand Slam winner has produced a series of lacklustre performances in Shanghai, his first tournament since suffering a shock fourth-round defeat by John Millman at the US Open last month. Yet he made an [&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":44359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44358","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\/44358","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=44358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44360,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44358\/revisions\/44360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}