{"id":17070,"date":"2021-07-03T23:49:44","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=119868"},"modified":"2021-07-03T23:49:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T18:19:44","slug":"wimbledon-2020-roger-federer-knocks-out-cameron-norrie-to-reach-fourth-round-for-the-18th-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/wimbledon-2020-roger-federer-knocks-out-cameron-norrie-to-reach-fourth-round-for-the-18th-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2020: Roger Federer knocks out Cameron Norrie to reach fourth round for the 18th time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer knocked out British Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 and reached the fourth round of Wimbledon for the 18th time to keep his dream of the 9th title alive. He becomes the oldest to reach the tournament fourth round in the Open Era at the age of 39 since Ken Rosewall (40) in 1975.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Now EIGHTEEN times into the second week!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rogerfederer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RogerFederer<\/a>\u2019s pursuit of title No.9 continues with a 6-4, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 victory over Cameron Norrie<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eLaCK4bgKH\">pic.twitter.com\/eLaCK4bgKH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1411368418058584064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am super relieved. It was a tough match with him. A little extra around but he had the right to that third set since he played excellent today.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">For me, I felt I was able to keep a high level of play and he got that good break at the end of the third but overall I can be very happy with how I played,\u201d said Federer after reaching the fourth round of a Grand Slam for 69th time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have liked every minute and I hope there\u2019s a bit more left in me. It\u2019s a pleasure to be still playing right now. It\u2019s special because I am almost 40 and at this point, it\u2019s all a bonus and I will see how far I can go here,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc4a This is what it means \ud83d\udc4d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rogerfederer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rogerfederer<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nhBfYP0C9u\">pic.twitter.com\/nhBfYP0C9u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Roland-Garros (@rolandgarros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rolandgarros\/status\/1411373172260286472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Norris, star of the ATP tour of the season who reached three finals had two chances to break in the second game of the second set but that didn\u2019t help him to wrap up victory in two hours and 34 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss will next face Italy\u2019s Lorenzo Sonego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer knocked out British Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 and reached the fourth round of Wimbledon for the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":37817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[464,2103,1421,2104,331,2105,202,250],"class_list":["post-17070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-british","tag-cameron-norrie","tag-grand-slam","tag-lorenzo-sonego","tag-roger-federer","tag-swiss","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070","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=17070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}