{"id":54974,"date":"2016-07-03T01:27:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T01:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_sam_querreys_win_over_novak_djokovic_adds_to_a_list_of_sporting_shocks\/"},"modified":"2016-07-03T01:27:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T01:27:59","slug":"bbc_sam_querreys_win_over_novak_djokovic_adds_to_a_list_of_sporting_shocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54974","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Sam Querrey&#39;s win over Novak Djokovic adds to a list of sporting shocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sometimes,&#8221; said Sam Querrey&#8217;s coach Craig Boynton after the 6-7 1-6 6-3 6-7 defeat of world number one Novak Djokovic, &#8220;even a blind squirrel finds a nut.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If that sounds a cruel verdict when your charge has just pulled off the greatest single performance of his career, you could forgive the bewilderment.<\/p>\n<p>Not since 1968 had a man held four Grand Slam titles simultaneously, as Djokovic did coming in to this week. Not since the Open era began has a man rattled off 30 straight wins at Slam tournaments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/36696366\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sometimes,&#8221; said Sam Querrey&#8217;s coach Craig Boynton after the 6-7 1-6 6-3 6-7 defeat of world number one Novak Djokovic, &#8220;even a blind squirrel finds a nut.&#8221; If that sounds a cruel verdict when your charge has just pulled off<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54974\">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":[39,50,209,466,199,200,125,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-croatia","category-england-uk","category-europe","category-men","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54974","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=54974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}