{"id":2419,"date":"2014-06-02T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T02:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2014-06-02T09:02:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T02:02:15","slug":"roger-federer-lost-in-five-sets-to-ernests-gulbis-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/roger-federer-lost-in-five-sets-to-ernests-gulbis-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Federer lost in five sets to Ernests Gulbis &#8211; French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer failed to reach the French Open quarter-finals for the first time since 2004 as he lost in five sets to Latvia&#8217;s Ernests Gulbis.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-time Grand Slam champion led by a set and a break, but went down 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-3) 6-2 4-6 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth-round victory would have taken the 32-year-old Swiss into a record 42nd major quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>Gulbis, seeded 18th, goes on to face sixth seed Czech Tomas Berdych in the last eight.<\/p>\n<p>The temperamental 25-year-old gave a typically unpredictable performance, big serving and brilliant shot-making interspersed with racquet smashing and verbal exchanges with spectators&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/0\/tennis\/27656709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Tennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer failed to reach the French Open quarter-finals for the first time since 2004 as he lost in five sets to Latvia&#8217;s Ernests Gulbis. The 17-time Grand Slam champion led by a set and a break, but went down 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-3) 6-2 4-6 6-3. Fourth-round victory would have taken the 32-year-old Swiss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[254,251,249,253,250,255,252,1272],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-big-serving","tag-ernests-gulbis","tag-french-open","tag-latvia","tag-roger-federer","tag-shot-making","tag-swiss","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}