{"id":23878,"date":"2018-01-14T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T13:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/14\/superswiss-roger-federer-ready-to-unleash-weapons-on-australian-open-kevin-mitchell\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T13:39:08","slug":"superswiss-roger-federer-ready-to-unleash-weapons-on-australian-open-kevin-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=23878","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SuperSwiss\u2019 Roger Federer ready to unleash weapons on Australian Open | Kevin Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reigning champion, a player who could probably save the planet if required, has worked hard in the off-season \u2018to create a base that serves me well throughout the season\u2019If Roger Federer were a superhero (to many, he already is), he would, he says, like to be Thor. At the US Open last year, he nicknamed Juan Mart\u00edn del&nbsp;Potro \u201cDel&nbsp;Thortro\u201d, after the Argentinian had conjured the most dramatic comeback to defeat Dominic Thiem in five sets, so he clearly shares a lot of TV time with his young children these days.They will have been thrilled, no doubt, to watch him play alongside Spider\u2011Man and other comic-book folk in a fun hit-up that drew a far bigger crowd than did Bernard Tomic\u2019s thrilling, three-set exit from the qualifying tournament on Court&nbsp;8. With lazy fingers sending off nuclear\u2011missile alerts in Hawaii, it is comforting to be in the presence of a tennis player who could probably save the planet if required. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/jan\/14\/superswiss-roger-federer-ready-to-unleash-weapons-australian-open-tennis\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018SuperSwiss\u2019 Roger Federer ready to unleash weapons on Australian Open | Kevin Mitchell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reigning champion, a player who could probably save the planet if required, has worked hard in the off-season \u2018to create a base that serves me well throughout the season\u2019If Roger Federer were a superhero (to many, he already is), he would, he says, like to be Thor. At the [&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-23878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23878","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=23878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}