{"id":7947,"date":"2009-06-05T10:52:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T14:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=7947"},"modified":"2009-06-05T10:52:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T14:52:55","slug":"1st-of-two-mens-semi-at-roland-garros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=7947","title":{"rendered":"1st of two men&#8217;s semi at Roland Garros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Soderling is play Fernando Gonzalez.  Gonzalez is from Santiago, Chile; plays single hand back hand and is the oldest one among the 4 semi men, 29.  Guess I&#8217;ll root for him for the simple reason one-handed backhand &#8230; but he grunts &#8230; but his form is prettier than Soderling&#8217;s (his forehhand likes a street fighter) although I like Soderling&#8217;s relaxed manner.  A lot of long rallies already.  A fair game.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly engouh, I can&#8217;t fine the live feed of the French Open, don&#8217;t tell me that NBC bought out all of the operators.  That&#8217;s sicking.<\/p>\n<p>OK .. it&#8217;s 11:10am, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis-open.net\/news.php?nid=2725\">Soderling edges out Gonzalez<\/a> &#8230; 6:3, 7:5, 5:7, 4:6 and 6:4.  And NBC is still showing the game at 4:3 third set.  Sickening.  What other important sport that they have to show on a weekday early morning?<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez was up 4:1 in the 5th and was up 30:15 on Soderling&#8217;s serve &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feliciano-lopez.com\/index\/44.php\">Feliciano Lopez<\/a> is the best looking man on the tour.  He&#8217;s from Toledo, a little town not far from Madrid.  A very distant memory of one of my Europass summers there :).  Lopez plays one-handed backhand.  He turned pro in 1997, with only one singles and one doubles titles (both in 2004), his earning over the course of 12 years is $4 mil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Soderling is play Fernando Gonzalez. Gonzalez is from Santiago, Chile; plays single hand back hand and is the oldest one among the 4 semi men, 29. Guess I&#8217;ll root for him for the simple reason one-handed backhand &#8230; but he grunts &#8230; but his form is prettier than Soderling&#8217;s (his forehhand likes a street [&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-7947","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\/7947","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=7947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}