{"id":43468,"date":"2020-09-12T01:05:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T01:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43468"},"modified":"2020-09-12T01:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T01:19:00","slug":"daniil-medvedev-vs-dominic-thiem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43468","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev vs  Dominic Thiem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mens semi final at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=43442\">US Open today<\/a>. Carre\u00f1o Busta (doesn&#8217;t he look like Ben Affleck? \u21d3) lost to Zverev after winning the first two sets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_3199.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-43470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_3199-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_3207-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-43473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_3207-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_3205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-43474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_3205-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Medvedev&#8217;s sarcastic manner isn&#8217;t endearing. (\u21d1 middle: Still remember the bad hair cut of the Russian male players back then?) He was born in Moscow in 1996, tuned pro in 2014 and prize money is $11.2 mil, average $1.8 a year.\u00a0Thiem (\u21d1 right) born in Austria in 1993, turned pro in 2011 and his prize money is $23.8m, average $2.3 a year. Neither of them have won a grand slam.<\/p>\n<p>This US Open <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2020_US_Open_(tennis)#Point_and_prize_money_distribution\">pays $3m<\/a> to the winner (1.5 m to runner up), semi final takes home $800k. The two are fight over the second spot in the final, it&#8217;s $1.5m or $3m, and $800k difference in prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mens semi final at US Open today. Carre\u00f1o Busta (doesn&#8217;t he look like Ben Affleck? \u21d3) lost to Zverev after winning the first two sets. Medvedev&#8217;s sarcastic manner isn&#8217;t endearing. (\u21d1 middle: Still remember the bad hair cut of the Russian male players back then?) He was born in Moscow in 1996, tuned pro in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43468","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\/43468","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}