{"id":2930,"date":"2014-07-07T08:37:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T01:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2930"},"modified":"2014-07-07T08:37:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T01:37:21","slug":"djokovic-defeats-federer-in-five-sets-for-second-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/djokovic-defeats-federer-in-five-sets-for-second-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Djokovic defeats Federer in five sets for second Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8211; Novak Djokovic&#8217;s large lead in the rollicking Wimbledon final was slipping away, due in no small part to Roger Federer&#8217;s regal presence and resurgent play.<\/p>\n<p>No man has won tennis&#8217; oldest major tournament more often than Federer, and he was not about to let it go easily. Djokovic went from being a point from victory in the fourth set to suddenly caught in the crucible of a fifth, and he knew all too well that he repeatedly had come up short in recent Grand Slam title matches.<\/p>\n<p>Steeling himself when he so desperately needed to, and steadying his weary legs, Serbia&#8217;s Djokovic held on for a 6-7 (7), 6-4, 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-4 victory after nearly four hours&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tennis News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2014\/07\/djokovic-defeats-federer-five-sets-seventh-slam-second-wimbledon\/52028\/\" 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;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8211; Novak Djokovic&#8217;s large lead in the rollicking Wimbledon final was slipping away, due in no small part to Roger Federer&#8217;s regal presence and resurgent play. No man has won tennis&#8217; oldest major tournament more often than Federer, and he was not about to let it go easily. Djokovic went from being a point [&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":[1157,473,250,114,120,80,188,1272,337,343,1192],"class_list":["post-2930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-2014-wimbledon","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-roger-federer","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-wimbledon","tag-wimbledon-final"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930","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=2930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}