{"id":2746,"date":"2014-06-16T16:59:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T09:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2014-06-16T16:59:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T09:59:02","slug":"roger-federer-defeat-falla-for-seventh-gerry-weber-open-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/roger-federer-defeat-falla-for-seventh-gerry-weber-open-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Federer defeat Falla for seventh Gerry Weber Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HALLE, Germany (AP) &#8212; Roger Federer delivered a statement of intent for Wimbledon on Sunday by winning the grass-court Gerry Weber Open for the seventh time.<\/p>\n<p>Federer fired five aces and saved three of the five break points he faced to defeat Alejandro Falla 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3) in the final. It was the 14th title on grass and 79th overall for the 32-year-old Swiss.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-time Wimbledon champion improved his record to 46-5 in 12 appearances at the tournament where he made his debut 14 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I&#8217;ve left a little bit of my heart here,&#8221; Federer said after his ninth Halle final. &#8221;I&#8217;m very pleased now to go to Wimbledon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Federer broke to go 5-3 up in the first set, only for Falla to respond with a break and take it to the tiebreaker&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tennis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2014\/06\/federer-beats-falla-for-7th-gerry-weber-open-title\/51768\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Sport News <a title=\"Tennis\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/tennis\/\">Tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALLE, Germany (AP) &#8212; Roger Federer delivered a statement of intent for Wimbledon on Sunday by winning the grass-court Gerry Weber Open for the seventh time. Federer fired five aces and saved three of the five break points he faced to defeat Alejandro Falla 7-6 (2), 7-6 (3) in the final. It was the 14th [&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":[1129,1128,1130,30,250,114,120,80,188,1272,337],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alejandro-falla","tag-gerry-weber-open","tag-halle-final","tag-news","tag-roger-federer","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","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=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}