{"id":30555,"date":"2012-01-29T23:34:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T23:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/novak_djokovic_beats_rafael_nadal_in_australian_open_final\/"},"modified":"2012-01-29T23:34:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T23:34:14","slug":"novak_djokovic_beats_rafael_nadal_in_australian_open_final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30555","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in Australian Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic cemented his place at the top of men&#8217;s tennis by outlasting Rafael Nadal in a five-set epic to retain his Australian Open title.<\/p>\n<p>The world number one edged a gripping battle with the second seed 5-7 6-4 6-2 6-7 (5-7) 7-5 in five hours 53 minutes to win his fifth Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, who also beat the Spaniard in their previous six meetings, has now triumphed at the last three majors.<\/p>\n<p>But this might be the sweetest of them all for so many reasons&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/tennis\/16773908.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novak Djokovic cemented his place at the top of men&#8217;s tennis by outlasting Rafael Nadal in a five-set epic to retain his Australian Open title. The world number one edged a gripping battle with the second seed 5-7 6-4 6-2<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30555\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}