{"id":80726,"date":"2021-06-05T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=80726"},"modified":"2021-06-05T02:02:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:02:26","slug":"tsitsipas-uses-nifty-trick-to-down-towering-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=80726","title":{"rendered":"Tsitsipas uses nifty trick to down towering American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stefanos Tsitsipas has advanced to the fourth round at the French Open by winning his 36th match of the year, the most on the men&#x27;s tour.<\/p>\n<p>And the last American man in the draw has been eliminated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rolandgarros\/status\/1400932966444974085\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/rolandgarros\/status\/1400932966444974085<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seeded fifth, Tsitsipas rallied to beat No. 31 John Isner 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (3), 6-1 in a match that ended shortly before midnight.<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas was prepared for Isner&#x27;s giant service game, practicing in a unique way with his hitting partner before the match, and the practice appeared to help him overcome the towering American.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/christophclarey\/status\/1400945273191477259\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/christophclarey\/status\/1400945273191477259<\/a><\/p>\n<p>US men went 0-4 in Friday&#x27;s play, and Isner has now lost 13 consecutive matches when facing an opponent ranked in the top five.<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas, a semifinalist last year, will next face No. 12 Pablo Carreno Busta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Stefanos Tsitsipas has advanced to the fourth round at the French Open by winning his 36th match of the year, the most on the men&#x27;s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=80726\" title=\"Tsitsipas uses nifty trick to down towering American\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80727,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80726\/revisions\/80727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}