{"id":64815,"date":"2020-01-29T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=64815"},"modified":"2020-01-29T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T14:22:08","slug":"tennis-top-seed-nadal-eliminated-from-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/tennis-top-seed-nadal-eliminated-from-australian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis top seed Nadal eliminated from Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>World number one in tennis, Rafael Nadal was eliminated from the 2020 Australian Open over Wednesday&#8217;s 3-1 loss to Austria&#8217;s Dominic Thiem.<\/h2>\n<p>Thiem reserved his place for the semifinals for the first time, winning the four-hour match against Nadal with the sets of 7-6, 7-6, 4-6, 7-6 at Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-time grand slam singles champion, Nadal became the Australian Open champion in 2009, his only title in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old player was unable to end his 11-year quest in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Since his only Australian Open triumph, Nadal played 2012, 2014, 2017, and 2019 finals in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to be back on Friday,&#8221; Thiem, 26, said after his victory over Nadal.<\/p>\n<p>Thiem will face his German opponent Alexander Zverev in this year&#8217;s semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the 2020 semifinals in men&#8217;s will see a worth-watching battle between two giants, Switzerland&#8217;s Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic of Serbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number one in tennis, Rafael Nadal was eliminated from the 2020 Australian Open over Wednesday&#8217;s 3-1 loss to Austria&#8217;s Dominic Thiem. Thiem reserved his place for the semifinals for the first time, winning the four-hour match against Nadal with the sets of 7-6, 7-6, 4-6, 7-6 at Rod Laver Arena. The 19-time grand slam &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,45,56,1,118,127,154],"tags":[20459,26304,77179],"class_list":["post-64815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-entertainment","category-events","category-general","category-hot","category-sport","category-tennis","tag-australian-open","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}