{"id":45457,"date":"2010-09-14T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T08:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/09\/14\/rafa-nadal-won-his-first-us-open\/"},"modified":"2010-09-14T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T08:50:00","slug":"rafa-nadal-won-his-first-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/09\/14\/rafa-nadal-won-his-first-us-open.html","title":{"rendered":"Rafa Nadal Won His First US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal won his first U.S. Open title to complete a career Grand Slam, beating Novak Djokovic 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 Monday in a match filled with fantastic shotmaking by both men and interrupted by a thunderstorm a day after it was postponed by rain, AP reports.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Nadal\u2019s third consecutive major championship and ninth overall.<\/p>\n<p>He is the seventh man in tennis history with at least one title from each Grand Slam tournament.<br \/>Rain pushed the men\u2019s final from Sunday to Monday for the third consecutive year, and play was interrupted for nearly two hours during the second set. When they resumed, Djokovic took that set, the only one Nadal lost in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>But the No. 1-ranked Spaniard quickly took a lead in the third set and never let it go.<br \/>\u201cHe took it away,\u201d Djokovic said, \u201cand he never gave me a chance to go back.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is the seventh man in tennis history with at least&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[15527,15526,15528,15529],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}