{"id":713,"date":"2019-07-06T04:07:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T04:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/?p=713"},"modified":"2019-07-06T04:07:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T04:07:40","slug":"day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Warm sunny weather today. Ho hum. I manage to get a Court 1 ticket for Djokovic and FAA matches later. First match for Phil, Lucy and me is Paire vs Vesely on Court 18. Too many errors in the first; taken by Vesely 7-5. \nSet two goes the full distance and Paire takes it 7-6(5).\nThe third goes to Paire 6-3. They have many good points but are clearly below the level of Nadal and Kyrgios. \nThe fourth goes on serve to 6-6 and Paire takes the tiebreaker and the match. \n\nLucy and I now go to Court 1 where Phil is enjoying the start of the third set between Hsieh and Pliskova. Hsieh has a two-handed forehand and sometimes switches to one-handed. Pliskova quickly puts Hsieh down 1-3, 15-40 in the third, but Hsieh holds. It\u2019s not enough as Pliskova wins 6-4. In the final game Hsieh runs for a shot to the backhand side, steps over the tarp attempting to reach the shot, and high-fives a woman in the front row. I like her for that. \n\nNext up is Djokovic vs Hubert Hurkacz, who is only 22. I watched him at Indian Wells and he has all the tools to climb the rankings in coming years. They hold serve to 5-5 and Hurkacz is broken on a 20-stroke rally. 7-5 to Novak.\nAt 1-1, 15-30 Hurkacz wins a great rally and the audience gives full approval. At 3-3, 30-30 Hurkacz wins a 21-stroke rally. After four deuces Hurkacz holds. Good stuff here. At 5-6 deuce Hurkacz gets to set point on a diving tumbling volley. We\u2019re getting our money\u2019s worth as they reach a tiebreaker. Novak wins a 16-stroke rally for an opening break point; Hurkacz wins an amazing 26-point rally to return the favor and the audience is on its feet in appreciation. They trade mini breaks and reach 3-3. Another trade of mini breaks and we reach 4-4. At 5-5 Novak loses the next two. We\u2019re level and the audience is joyful.\nNovak goes up 2-0 in the third and coasts for 6-1. Order has been restored.\nHurkacz finds himself in real trouble in the fourth, 1-3, 15-40 but avoids a second break. Novak serves and holds at 5-4 for the end of a very entertaining match.\n\nNext up is the Canadian sensation, Felix Auger-Aliassime vs Ugo Humbert, who just turned 21 last month. They hold serve until Ugo breaks for 4-3 but Felix shows VERY good form and is a pure joy to witness. Beautiful footwork. First set goes 6-4 to Ugo.\nFelix wins the first three games and gets to 5-3 but is broken for 4-5. Meanwhile, on Centre, Hercog goes down 1-4 in the third to Coco Gauff but corrects to 4-4. High drama on the grounds. Ugo regroups and breaks Felix twice to reach 6-5 and holds for 7-5.\n\nFelix goes down 15-40 in the opening game of the third and loses his service. Meanwhile, Coco beats Hercog on Centre 7-5 in the third. I\u2019m very happy for her showing this year.\nFelix struggles to hold serve at 3-5 and is finally broken for the match. \n\nA great day of tennis today finishing at 8:50.\n\nSent from my iPhone\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm sunny weather today. Ho hum. I manage to get a Court 1 ticket for Djokovic and FAA matches later. First match for Phil, Lucy&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\/713"}],"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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennispro.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}