{"id":43115,"date":"2019-09-09T00:18:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T00:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43115"},"modified":"2019-09-09T01:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T01:42:55","slug":"43115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43115","title":{"rendered":"The men&#8217;s final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_0936.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-43116 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_0936-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never cheered for Nadal the swarthy as I do now, as he&#8217;s battling for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43080\">2019 US Open title<\/a>&#8230; but at the same time, feeling for the other players who retired without winning a grand slam title. The following four won 78 grand slam titles in 20 years, out of 80 opportunities (&#8230; somehow I felt my math isn&#8217;t right &#8230; and btw, doesn&#8217;t Daniil Medvedev look like Fredo in The Godfather?) but here it is &#8211; after Nadal won the 2019 US Open:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Serena <sup>1981<\/sup>\u00a0won 23 since 1999 ($90m)<\/li>\n<li>Federer <sup>1981<\/sup>\u00a0won 20 since 2003 \u00a0(126m)<\/li>\n<li>Nadal <sup>1986<\/sup>\u00a0won 19 since 2005 ($111m)<\/li>\n<li>Djokovic\u00a0<sup>1987<\/sup>\u00a0won 16 since 2008 ($134m)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Medvedev&#8217;s speech at the trump ceremony summed up nicely and it&#8217;s heart felt &#8230; good for him &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never cheered for Nadal the swarthy as I do now, as he&#8217;s battling for the 2019 US Open title&#8230; but at the same time, feeling for the other players who retired without winning a grand slam title. The following four won 78 grand slam titles in 20 years, out of 80 opportunities (&#8230; somehow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43115","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=43115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}