{"id":61599,"date":"2019-05-18T11:49:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T11:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=61599"},"modified":"2019-05-18T11:49:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T11:49:48","slug":"nadal-races-into-rome-semis-konta-also-makes-last-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/nadal-races-into-rome-semis-konta-also-makes-last-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadal races into Rome semis, Konta also makes last-four"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Italian  Open champion Rafael Nadal set up a semifinal with Stefanos Tsitsipas  thanks to a 6-4 6-0 win over fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco today,  while Briton Johanna Konta got through to the last-four for the first  time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A week after losing to the Greek upstart at the same stage \nof the Madrid Open, the 32-year-old Nadal will be eager to prove that \ndefeat was just a blip as the Spaniard fine-tunes his game ahead of his \nbid for a 12th Roland Garros title.The 20-year-old Greek progressed \nafter Roger Federer pulled out with a right leg injury before their \nquarterfinal clash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nadal went 2-0 down against Verdasco before \nsurviving three break points at 4-4 in the first set, but the second \nseed pulled away by winning eight consecutive games to continue his hunt\n for a ninth title in Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was not playing badly at the \nbeginning at all but he was playing unbelievable ,\u201d Nadal said. \u201cNo \nmistakes, a lot of winners, taking the ball early. It was a very \ndifficult first set.\u201dArgentina\u2019s Diego Schwartzman reached the last four\n with a 6-4 6-2 win over Japanese sixth seed Kei Nishikori and will face\n world No. 1 Novak Djokovic or Juan Martin del Potro.\n\n<\/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>Italian Open champion Rafael Nadal set up a semifinal with Stefanos Tsitsipas thanks to a 6-4 6-0 win over fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco today, while Briton Johanna Konta got through to the last-four for the first time. A week after losing to the Greek upstart at the same stage of the Madrid Open, the 32-year-old [&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":61600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61599","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\/61599","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=61599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61601,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61599\/revisions\/61601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}