{"id":212,"date":"2011-02-24T23:46:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T03:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2011-02-24T23:47:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T03:47:38","slug":"final-four-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/24\/final-four-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Four in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The top three seeds have made it through to the semi-finals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dubaidutyfreetennischampionships.com\/News\/Tennis\/2011\/ATP-Tournament\/Thursday-Night-Djokovic-Federer-Win.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">for the first time<\/a> in Dubai. Richard Gasquet came back from one set down to defeat Gilles Simon and earn himself a spot in the next round. Gasquet will face Roger Federer, whom he hasn't beaten in his last seven attempts. Considering how Federer has cruised through the draw this week (he hasn't dropped serve yet), I don't think that streak will be broken anytime soon. Read about this match <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/News\/Tennis\/2011\/02\/8\/Dubai-Thursday-Federer-Marches-On.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the draw, we have Novak Djokovic taking on Tomas Berdych. This has the makings of a great match. Djokovic is on a roll since winning the Australian Open, and it seems like Berdych is always playing well lately. More about this matchup <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/News\/Tennis\/2011\/02\/8\/Dubai-Thursday-Berdych-Beats-Petzschner.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will we see a (1) Federer vs. (2) Djokovic final? Perhaps. Perhaps not.<\/p>\n<p>-multi<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top three seeds have made it through to the semi-finals for the first time in Dubai. Richard Gasquet came back from one set down to defeat Gilles Simon and earn himself a spot in the next round. Gasquet will face Roger Federer, whom he hasn&#8217;t beaten in his last seven attempts. Considering how Federer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}