{"id":19679,"date":"2010-03-22T21:10:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T01:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=19679"},"modified":"2010-03-22T21:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T01:10:57","slug":"ivan-ljubicic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=19679","title":{"rendered":"Ivan Ljubi\u010di\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An improbable champion at age of 31, beating Nadal and Andy Roddick at Indian Wells yesterday.  I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireneeng.com\/?p=19588\">have to leave<\/a> at beginning of their first set tie break, wondering how did he get to the final, in such advanced age?  Don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen him often.  Ljubicic turned pro in 1998 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=761 \">earned career prize money<\/a> of $8,786,405.<\/p>\n<p>Later last night, I learned he beat out Roddick in straight sets to win.  Wow ..  I understand, no matter how much planing and practicing, each match has life of its own.  It is being played at a particular moment and favored the one who could sized the moment, making statistics almost irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>Carpe diem is never my motto, but being old enough to know, sometimes, you have to just size the moment and living it to the fullest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An improbable champion at age of 31, beating Nadal and Andy Roddick at Indian Wells yesterday. I have to leave at beginning of their first set tie break, wondering how did he get to the final, in such advanced age? Don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve seen him often. Ljubicic turned pro in 1998 and earned career prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-19679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}