{"id":45738,"date":"2014-09-07T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cilic_upsets_federer_to_meet_nishikori_in_us_open_final\/"},"modified":"2014-09-07T04:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T04:00:20","slug":"cilic_upsets_federer_to_meet_nishikori_in_us_open_final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45738","title":{"rendered":"Cilic upsets Federer, to meet Nishikori in US Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer could not pull off another big escape at the U.S. Open, losing 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinals Saturday against Croatia&#8217;s Marin Cilic.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second significant surprise of the day, coming after Novak Djokovic was beaten 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 by Japan&#8217;s Kei Nishikori, who became the first man from Asia to reach a Grand Slam singles final.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of the No. 1-seeded Djokovic against the No. 2-seeded Federer &#8212; who have combined to win 24 major championships &#8212; in Monday&#8217;s final, it will be No. 10 Nishikori against No. 14 Cilic, neither of whom has ever appeared in a Grand Slam title match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s going to be a sensational day for both of us,&#8221; said Cilic, who at 25 is a year older than Nishikori.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/tennis\/story\/?id=461117\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer could not pull off another big escape at the U.S. Open, losing 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the semifinals Saturday against Croatia&#8217;s Marin Cilic. It was the second significant surprise of the day, coming after Novak Djokovic was beaten<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45738\">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":[39,50,466,200,125,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-croatia","category-europe","category-men","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45738","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=45738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}