{"id":67936,"date":"2014-11-24T05:50:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T05:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=67936"},"modified":"2014-11-24T05:50:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T05:50:59","slug":"federer-leads-swiss-davis-cup-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=67936","title":{"rendered":"Federer leads Swiss to Davis Cup win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roger Federer beat Richard Gasquet to seal Switzerland’s first Davis Cup triumph, then dedicated the victory to his team-mates.<\/p>\n

The 17-time Grand Slam champion beat France’s Gasquet 6-4 6-2 6-2 to give the Swiss an unassailable 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n

“This one is for the boys,” said Federer, who was in tears at the end of the match.<\/p>\n

“This is not for me, I have won enough. I am just happy we can give everyone in our country a historic moment.”<\/p>\n

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Federer, 33, also paid tribute to compatriot Stan Wawrinka, who helped set up the victory in Lille by\u00a0beating Jo-Wilfried Tsonga before partnering Federer to win the doubles.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Federer and Wawrinka were involved in a row at the ATP Tour Finals in London, which the world number two later described as\u00a0“heat of the moment”.<\/p>\n

“Stan has put in so much effort over the years. He played an unbelievable weekend and that is what gave me the opportunity today,” said Federer.<\/p>\n

Federer, who\u00a0lost his singles rubber to Gael Monfils on Friday,played an inspired match as he crushed Gasquet, who replaced Tsonga due to an arm injury.<\/p>\n

In front of a passionate crowd of 27,448 –\u00a0a world record\u00a0for a competitive tennis match – Federer dropped only four points on his imperious serve in the opening set, which he sealed with a whipping forehand winner.<\/p>\n

World number 26 Gasquet dropped serve in the first and seventh games of the second set, which Federer took without conceding a single break point.<\/p>\n

He broke the Frenchman twice in the final set to serve for the match and claimed victory with a deft backhand drop shot – collapsing in tears onto the clay at the Stade Pierre-Mauroyto.<\/p>\n

The Swiss win comes a week after Federer pulled out of the Tour Finals title match against Novak Djokovic at the O2 in London\u00a0to protect a back injury.<\/p>\n

\"Switzerland<\/p>\n

Switzerland beat France 3-1 to win the Davis Cup<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Roger<\/p>\n

Federer has now won everything in the game including 17 grand slam titles and an Olympic gold medal<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Swiss<\/p>\n

Switzerland become only the 14th nation to win the Davis Cup in 115 years – they were runners-up in 1992<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"World<\/p>\n

A world record crowd of 27,448 watched Federer’s win – beating the previous record of 27,432 set on Friday’s opening day<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roger Federer beat Richard Gasquet to seal Switzerland’s first Davis Cup triumph, then dedicated the victory to his team-mates. The 17-time Grand Slam champion beat France’s Gasquet 6-4 6-2 6-2 to give the Swiss an unassailable 3-1 lead. “This one is for the boys,” said Federer, who was in tears at the end of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":67937,"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":[3,31],"class_list":["post-67936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news","tag-professor-adei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67936","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}