{"id":17062,"date":"2021-07-02T10:14:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T04:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=119036"},"modified":"2021-07-02T10:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T04:44:45","slug":"wimbledon-2021-roger-federer-makes-open-era-record-as-he-beat-richard-gasquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/wimbledon-2021-roger-federer-makes-open-era-record-as-he-beat-richard-gasquet\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2021: Roger Federer makes open era record as he beat Richard Gasquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer pursued his proffer for a record-extending ninth Wimbledon title with an exhaustive straight-sets victory over two-time semi-finalist Richard Gasquet 7-6(1), 6-1, 6-4 at the Centre Court. He will now face Britain\u2019s Cam Norrie tomorrow as he advanced to the third round for a record 118th time, at the All England Club.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That was a lot of fun \ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n<p>Centre Court are treated to fine displays from both players as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rogerfederer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rogerfederer<\/a> beats Richard Gasquet 7-6(1), 6-1, 6-4<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EeQQVDjuOq\">pic.twitter.com\/EeQQVDjuOq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1410662131423498243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201d I know Richard very well. We have played a lot of times facing each other. He has got such a wonderful backhand.<\/p>\n<p>After he rioted that down the line, I thought maybe I can do something similar I\u2019d be happy with and after that, I got on a roll so I am happy that he inspired me on the shot.<\/p>\n<p>It was a sublime match for me. I was really happy with how I played today,\u201d said Federer post-match.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-time Grand Slam champion appeared in his tenth match in 19 months, got through a major scare in his first round where he faced Adrian Mannarino.<\/p>\n<p>Eight-time champion Federer is chasing his 21st Grand Slam title that would put him above his rival Rafael Nadal. Both are currently tying with 20 Grand Slams.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss star Federer had dominated over Gasquet for a decade winning his last 10 games and 22 sets vs the 35- year-old Frenchman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer pursued his proffer for a record-extending ninth Wimbledon title with an exhaustive straight-sets victory over two-time semi-finalist Richard\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":37809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2003,1988,1421,336,331,202,250],"class_list":["post-17062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-adrian-mannarino","tag-all-england-club","tag-grand-slam","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-roger-federer","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}