{"id":709,"date":"2019-07-04T23:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T23:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/?p=709"},"modified":"2019-07-04T23:40:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T23:40:11","slug":"day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Before play on Centre I get a nice seat on 16 for Querrey vs Rublev. Sam breaks first for 3-1 and continues holding for 6-3. \nThe second set starts with a break and Sam rolls for 4-1. He\u2019s just overpowering Rublev. He continues for 6-2 and two sets up in 51 minutes.   \nRublev goes down 2-4 in the third and Sam converts for 6-3. He gave Rublev a grass court lesson. \n\nMatches on Centre are getting ready and first up is Nishikori vs Norrie. Kei serves at 2-3 and Norrie gets a fortuitous break for 4-2.  Kei recovers to 4-4 and wins the first 6-4.\nThey trade breaks the first two games of the second but Kei breaks again and prevails 6-4\nNorrie drops serve the opening game of the third and Kei cleans up 6-0.\n\nNext on is Konta vs Siniakova. They hold until Jo goes up 4-2. She holds serve and plays well to take the first 6-3. The second is similar with Jo winning 6-4.\nMeanwhile Roger has won over Clarke on One. \n\nNow we come to the feature match here. Nadal takes on Kyrgios and I\u2019ve heard there might be bad blood between them. Nick did defeat him here a few years back. Some predict a severe beat down by Rafa but no one can really accurately predict how it will go.\nRafa comes out absolutely bashing the ball and Nick finds himself down 1-4. At 2-5 Nick serves a 143 mph second serve and then an underhand service winner to hold. Rafa holds for 6-3. He gives a celebratory fist pump.  All very entertaining stuff.\n\nNick breaks for 2-0 in the second, the last point on an 18-stroke rally. This match is heating up. Next game Nick is down 30-40 and makes a lucky guess to block Rafa\u2019s passing shot. Amazing.  Rafa goes down 0-3.\nAt 3-1, 40-30. Nick plays an underhand service winner. Massive hitting gives a break back for Rafa but he loses his service giving Nick 5-3. Nick holds for 6-3 and we\u2019re level. We get at least four sets. WOO HOO!!\n\nThe third is even to 4-4 with great shot making from both. Nick blasts a shot at Rafa, which he must dodge. Rafa next gives nick quite a glare. They proceed to a tiebreaker won by Rafa. Rafa goes up 5-2 and wins it 7-5.\n\nEvenly matched in the fourth and they hold until 6-6. What fun. My favorite situation: a fourth set tiebreaker. Kyrgios fluffs a sitter volley and gets down 0-3. Rafa gets it 7-3. Good final match of the day. \nCheers \nRichard\n\nSent from my iPhone\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before play on Centre I get a nice seat on 16 for Querrey vs Rublev. Sam breaks first for 3-1 and continues holding for 6-3.&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\/709"}],"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=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}