{"id":2883,"date":"2014-07-02T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2014-07-02T09:15:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T02:15:43","slug":"rafael-nadal-falls-to-nick-kyrgios-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/rafael-nadal-falls-to-nick-kyrgios-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal falls to Nick Kyrgios &#8211; Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; For the third year in a row, Rafael Nadal made an early exit from Wimbledon after a stunning loss to a player ranked 100th or lower.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Kyrgios, a 19-year-old wild card from Australia with a world ranking of 144, served 37 aces and used a fearless go-for-broke style &#8212; he even hit a winning between-the-legs shot &#8212; to beat the No. 1-ranked Nadal 7-6 (5), 5-7, 7-6 (5), 6-3 and reach the quarterfinals on Tuesday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tennis News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2014\/07\/nadal-loses-to-19-year-old-kyrgios-at-wimbledon\/51964\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; <a title=\"Tennis\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/tennis\/\">Tennis<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; For the third year in a row, Rafael Nadal made an early exit from Wimbledon after a stunning loss to a player ranked 100th or lower. Nick Kyrgios, a 19-year-old wild card from Australia with a world ranking of 144, served 37 aces and used a fearless go-for-broke style &#8212; he even hit [&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":[1157,1170,530,114,120,80,188,1272,337,343],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-2014-wimbledon","tag-nick-kyrgios","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","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=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}