{"id":49425,"date":"2018-07-13T16:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/13\/wimbledon-2018-mens-semi-finals-john-isner-v-kevin-anderson-live\/"},"modified":"2018-07-13T16:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T14:00:55","slug":"wimbledon-2018-mens-semi-finals-john-isner-v-kevin-anderson-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=49425","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2018 men&#039;s semi-finals: John Isner v Kevin Anderson \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live updates from the semi-finals on Centre CourtNadal v Djokovic the main course after battle of the big serversEmail katy.murrells@theguardian.com, tweet @KatyMurrells 3.00pm BST Second set: Anderson 7-6, 6-6 Isner* (*denotes next server)Anderson holds to 30. So it\u2019s tie-break time. Again &#8230; 2.58pm BST Second set: *Anderson 7-6, 5-6 Isner (*denotes next server)Peter Leybourne emails: \u201cIf Isner loses this match without being broken \u2013 has anyone in the history of tennis ever gone this deep into a tourney and, having never had their serve broken, NOT won the whole shebang?\u201d Well in 1991, Stefan Edberg, the defending champion and top seed, lost to Michael Stich in the semi-finals without being broken. The score was 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-2). Though I\u2019m not sure whether Edberg had dropped serve before the semi-final. Meanwhile, Isner holds for 6-5, but I\u2019m sure you\u2019d already guessed that. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2018\/jul\/13\/wimbledon-2018-mens-semi-finals-isner-anderson-nadal-djokovic-live\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon 2018 men&#039;s semi-finals: John Isner v Kevin Anderson \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live updates from the semi-finals on Centre CourtNadal v Djokovic the main course after battle of the big serversEmail katy.murrells@theguardian.com, tweet @KatyMurrells 3.00pm BST Second set: Anderson 7-6, 6-6 Isner* (*denotes next server)Anderson holds to 30. So it\u2019s tie-break time. Again &#8230; 2.58pm BST Second set: *Anderson 7-6, 5-6 Isner [&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-49425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49425","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=49425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}