{"id":50185,"date":"2015-06-07T22:34:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T22:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/eurosports_stan_wawrinka_stuns_novak_djokovic_to_win_the_french_open\/"},"modified":"2015-06-07T22:34:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T22:34:38","slug":"eurosports_stan_wawrinka_stuns_novak_djokovic_to_win_the_french_open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50185","title":{"rendered":"(Eurosports) Stan Wawrinka stuns Novak Djokovic to win the French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanislas Wawrinka shocked world number one Novak Djokovic 4-6 6-4 6-3 6-4 to win the French Open and claim his second Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n<p>There were no jeers this time as Swiss Stan Wawrinka defied the odds to win the French Open with a courageous 4-6 6-4 6-3 6-4 victory over world number one Novak Djokovic in an enthralling final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The eighth seed, booed by the crowd when he played French opponents this year, handed Serbian Djokovic his third defeat in three Roland Garros finals to add a second major to his 2014 Australian Open title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I played the match of my life, it&#8217;s hard to believe. Playing against Novak was one of the biggest challenges. I know how much he wanted this Roland Garros,&#8221; Wawrinka said courtside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a crazy atmosphere these two weeks. I&#8217;d like to thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosport.com\/tennis\/french-open\/2015\/the-final-stanislas-wawrinka-v-novak-djokovic-live_sto4773370\/story.shtml\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanislas Wawrinka shocked world number one Novak Djokovic 4-6 6-4 6-3 6-4 to win the French Open and claim his second Grand Slam title. There were no jeers this time as Swiss Stan Wawrinka defied the odds to win the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50185\">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":[39,50,200,468,125,476,128,450],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-europe","category-france","category-men","category-serbia","category-sports","category-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50185","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=50185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}