{"id":704,"date":"2019-07-03T02:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/?p=704"},"modified":"2019-07-03T02:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T02:32:01","slug":"day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Day 2 promises more bright sunshine as Rafa and Roger play their first round matches. I\u2019m nowhere near close enough to get a Centre seat but I do get Court 1 for Rafa. \nFirst match on Court 3 is Kyrgios vs Thompson and I rush with others to get good seats. Nick looks very uninspired and Thompson gets up 3-1 as Nick plays dreadfully but enjoyable to watch anyhow. At 2-5 Nick saves two set points and at 4-5 he serves a 135 mph second serve ace to reach 5-5. At 5-5 Nick retrieves a drop shot and falls to the turf. Jordan runs to get Nick\u2019s retrieve but misses it while Nick is flat on his stomach. Nick gets up, takes a bow and sports a big grin. What good fun we have here. They reach 6-6. At 5-3 in the tiebreaker he hustles forward for a drop shot and pushes a tweeners pass attempt wide. What was he thinking?? His next two serves are aces for the set \n7-6. \nEarly in the second Kyrgios falls near the net and stays down an extra 10 seconds. He\u2019s feeling his oats. Down 3-4 break point, he chases a lob over his head and purposely waits to try a tweener, which he misses. What is he thinking? He loses the set 6-3. \n\nI now head for my Court 1 seat for Barty vs Zheng. Zheng goes down 0-3, recovers to 3-3 but loses the first 6-4.\nBarty rolls in the second 6-2 and that\u2019s that. Hope she continues to play well. \nMeanwhile, I follow the score and note Kyrgios wins the third in a 12-10 tiebreaker. He then drops the fourth 0-6 but takes the match 6-1 in the fifth. What was going on?\n\nNext up on Court 1 is Konta vs Bogdan. Many good rallies here and Konta squeaks by the first \n7-5. Kate Middleton watches the first but skips the second. \nBogdan goes down 2-5 in the second and Jo breaks again for the match. Well played, Jo. \n\nThe match of the day on Court 1 between Rafa and Sugita is up next. In the meantime I note Harris takes the first from Roger before Roger rolls 6-1, 6-3, 6-3. \n\nRafa has early trouble going down 0-2, 0-40 but takes the next three games and later wins the first 6-3. Sugita immediately drops his serve in the second. Great shot-making from both as Sugita trails 0-2. Rafa coasts to 6-1 with hard-hitting. \nMore of the same in the third as Rafa wins it 6-3.\n\nI\u2019m next off to court 18 where Fognini saves two break points before holding for a 6-3 third set against Tiafoe.  Fognini breaks for 1-0 and protects serve until 4-3. Then Tiafoe breaks twice for 6-4.\n\nIn the fifth, Tiafoe loses serve immediately. He gets a break point chance at 2-1 but Fognini holds. He continues to hold and closes out the match 6-4. \nAnother great day. \nCheers <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 2 promises more bright sunshine as Rafa and Roger play their first round matches. I\u2019m nowhere near close enough to get a Centre seat&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\/704"}],"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=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}