{"id":702,"date":"2019-07-02T02:52:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T02:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/?p=702"},"modified":"2019-07-02T02:52:54","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T02:52:54","slug":"day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>during <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\"><g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">wimbledon<\/g><\/g> we turn the reporting over to our photographer Richard Hess<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">The tournament starts in glorious mild sunny weather and Phil and I are pleased to have Centre Court seats for Djokovic, Osaka and Edmund matches. \nFirst for me is 7ft Riley Opelka vs 28-yr old Steve from Germany. Riley breaks Stebe the first game and holds to take the first set 6-3.\nStebe breaks the opening game but Riley gets it back later for 2-2. They reach a tiebreaker and Opelka wins the second. \n\nTime to trot to Centre for Djokovic vs Kohlschreiber and it\u2019s lovely to be here in bright sunshine. The court is perfectly manicured and a delight to behold. They trade breaks the first two games but Novak soon takes charge and coasts to a first set of 6-3.\nAs in the first Novak goes down a break but corrects to 2-2. Later he breaks again for 7-5.\nThe third has only one break and Novak has the match 6-3 in the third.\nMeanwhile, Auger-Aliassime has beaten Pospisil in four sets on Court 4.\n\nNext up on Centre we have Putintsevva and Osaka squaring off. Good hard hitting is great to watch. It reaches a tiebreaker, won by Putintseva. Wow. Quite unexpected.  \nAt 2-2 Naomi makes too many errors and Yulia is up a break. \nYulia continues to keep the pressure up and prevails 6-2.\nThis is the first major upset of the tournament.\n\nThe final match on Centre is Edmund vs Munar. Edmund gets up a break and I take a breather to get food and note that both Zverev and Tsitsipas get beaten. Amazing day of upsets. When I return Edmund is up a break in the second having taken the first. He holds and has a 6-4, 6-4 lead. Meanwhile, Gauff has Venus down 4-6, 2-4. Venus loses in two and Munar goes down 0-4. He recovers one break and saves two match points before losing 6-4. \nAn excellent first day at Wimbledon. \nCheers <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>during wimbledon we turn the reporting over to our photographer Richard Hess The tournament starts in glorious mild sunny weather and Phil and I are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}