{"id":57051,"date":"2019-03-15T11:15:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=57051"},"modified":"2019-03-15T11:15:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:15:21","slug":"federer-nadal-ease-into-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/federer-nadal-ease-into-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Federer, Nadal ease into quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal remained on course for a mouthwatering semifinal clash at the BNP Paribas Open with straightforward fourth-round victories on Wednesday. Federer needed just over an hour to dispatch Briton Kyle Edmund 6-1 6-4 in their first career meeting and reach the quarterfinals on a sunny and breezy day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up for the 20-time Grand Slam champion is another unknown quantity in Pole Hubert Hurkacz, who defeated Canadian teenager Denis Shapovalov 7-6(3) 2-6 6-3. Nadal, 17 times a Grand Slam winner, ruthlessly put an end to Serbian qualifier Filip Krajinovic\u2019s run at the tournament, converting three of his four break-point opportunities to advance 6-3 6-4. Neither Federer or Nadal have dropped a set in their three matches at Indian Wells, a tournament Federer has won five times and Nadal three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hard-hitting Milos Raonic beat Jan-Lennard Struff 6-4 6-3, while Gael Monfils registered a 6-2 6-0 win over Philipp Kohlschreiber, who upset world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the previous round. Seventh seed Dominic Thiem beat big-serving Ivo Karlovic 6-4 6-3, while 12th seed Karen Khachanov stunned home favourite and eighth seed John Isner 6-4 6-7(1).<\/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>Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal remained on course for a mouthwatering semifinal clash at the BNP Paribas Open with straightforward fourth-round victories on Wednesday. Federer needed just over an hour to dispatch Briton Kyle Edmund 6-1 6-4 in their first career meeting and reach the quarterfinals on a sunny and breezy day. Next up for [&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":57052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57051","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\/57051","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=57051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57053,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57051\/revisions\/57053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}