{"id":2913,"date":"2014-07-05T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T02:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2015-02-03T08:25:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T01:25:50","slug":"novak-djokovic-defeated-grigor-dimitrov-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/novak-djokovic-defeated-grigor-dimitrov-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak Djokovic defeated Grigor Dimitrov &#8211; Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A frenetic semifinal was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shoppingmonkey.co.uk\/companies\/primark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in<\/a> full flight when Novak Djokovic and Grigor Dimitrov went airborne for flying volleys\u2014and crashed to the court in a double knockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Withstanding heavy blows and sudden slips, Djokovic tasted grass and teetered on the edge of a fifth set, but never lost his appetite for the fight. The resilient top seed fought off four set points in the fourth set to subdue Dimitrov, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (7), and reach his 14th career Grand Slam final&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tennis News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2014\/07\/wimbledon-djokovic-d-dimitrov\/52006\/\" 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<p>&nbsp;-2-24-27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frenetic semifinal was in full flight when Novak Djokovic and Grigor Dimitrov went airborne for flying volleys\u2014and crashed to the court in a double knockdown. Withstanding heavy blows and sudden slips, Djokovic tasted grass and teetered on the edge of a fifth set, but never lost his appetite for the fight. The resilient top [&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":[1157,1131,473,114,120,80,188,1272,337,343],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-2014-wimbledon","tag-grigor-dimitrov","tag-novak-djokovic","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\/2913","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=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}