{"id":160455,"date":"2020-09-14T02:30:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/09\/14\/dominic-thiem-wins-us-open-final-on-tiebreak-against-alexander-zverev-after-five-set-thriller\/"},"modified":"2020-09-14T02:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T00:30:31","slug":"dominic-thiem-wins-us-open-final-on-tiebreak-against-alexander-zverev-after-five-set-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=160455","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Thiem wins US Open final on tiebreak against Alexander Zverev after five-set thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Austrian comes back from two sets down to claim first majorNo2 seed wins 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 at Flushing MeadowsAs it happened: Bryan Graham\u2019s game-by-game reportNovak Djokovic may still be the best player in men\u2019s tennis but, in the self-inflicted absence of the world No1, Dominic Thiem, 27, can fairly lay claim to be leading the charge of the new wave of contenders after beating 23-year-old Alexander Zverev to win the 2020 US Open on Sunday evening.Djokovic, 33, is waiting with 34-year-old Rafael Nadal for these impatient arrivistes to show up on the clay of Rome this week (Roger Federer remains at home resting his 39-year-old knees), and beyond that lies Roland Garros, the postponed and final slam of a disjointed, crazy season. Whatever Federer and Serena Williams believe, age is not just a number; it\u2019s a pain in the backside. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/sep\/13\/us-open-mens-final-2020-dominic-thiem-alexander-zverev\" target=\"_blank\">Dominic Thiem wins US Open final on tiebreak against Alexander Zverev after five-set thriller<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austrian comes back from two sets down to claim first majorNo2 seed wins 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 at Flushing MeadowsAs it happened: Bryan Graham\u2019s game-by-game reportNovak Djokovic may still be the best player in men\u2019s tennis but, in the self-inflicted absence of the world No1, Dominic Thiem, 27, can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}