{"id":131093,"date":"2015-07-03T07:25:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T07:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=131093"},"modified":"2015-07-03T07:25:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T07:25:27","slug":"wimbledon-2015-rafael-nadal-beaten-by-dustin-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=131093","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2015: Rafael Nadal beaten by Dustin Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">Two-time Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal made an early exit for the fourth year in a row as he was outplayed by qualifier Dustin Brown on Centre Court.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s world number 102 won 7-5 3-6 6-4 6-4 to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the third time.<\/p>\n<p>It is only the second time this year that the 30-year-old has won back-to-back matches at the top level.<\/p>\n<p>Nadal, 29, has now lost in the second, first, fourth and second rounds on his past four visits to Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>On each occasion the 14-time Grand Slam champion was beaten by a player outside the world\u2019s top 100.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who changed nationality from Jamaican to German in 2010, now has a 2-0 record against Nadal having beaten the Spaniard on grass in Halle last year.<\/p>\n<p>He came through three rounds of qualifying in Roehampton last week, needed four sets to win his first round on Tuesday and played five sets of doubles on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<table class=\"data-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"heading\">\n<th class=\"left first\">\n<h2>John McEnroe, three-time Wimbledon champion<\/h2>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"left first\">\u201cFive hundred professional tennis players are inspired to hang in for a couple of years longer because of what they have just seen there. Nothing is impossible. Brown\u2019s level of play on this court was spectacularly high.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s victory guarantees him \u00a377,000 in prize money, and Brown will take on Serbian 22nd seed Viktor Troicki in the last 32 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>His attacking game proved too much for 10th seed Nadal, with 13 aces, 58 winners and 89 trips to the net keeping the Spaniard on the back foot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal made an early exit for the fourth year in a row as he was outplayed by qualifier Dustin Brown on Centre Court. Germany\u2019s world number 102 won 7-5 3-6 6-4 6-4 to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the third time. It is only the second time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":131094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-131093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}