{"id":5040,"date":"2017-09-03T02:47:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T00:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/03\/us-open-third-round-rafael-nadal-v-leonardo-mayer-as-it-happened\/"},"modified":"2017-09-03T02:47:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T00:47:18","slug":"us-open-third-round-rafael-nadal-v-leonardo-mayer-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=5040","title":{"rendered":"US Open third round: Rafael Nadal v Leonardo Mayer \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World No1 books spot in last 16 with four-set win over Leonardo MayerNadal forced to rally from a set down for second consecutive match 1.47am BST That\u2019s all for now. Thanks for following along with us and do check back later for more coverage from Flushing Meadows. 1.46am BST \u201cI had don\u2019t know how many break points I had before I convert the first one,\u201d Nadal says in an on-court interview, referencing his 0-for-14 start in that category. \u201cFrom that moment I think I played better.\u201dHe\u2019s asked about a potential semi-final meeting with Roger Federer at the lone grand slam where they\u2019ve never met but he doesn\u2019t take the bait: \u201cI am in the fourth round right now, I don\u2019t think much about that. It\u2019s a long way.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2017\/sep\/02\/rafael-nadal-leonardo-mayer-live-us-open\" target=\"_blank\">US Open third round: Rafael Nadal v Leonardo Mayer \u2013 as it happened<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World No1 books spot in last 16 with four-set win over Leonardo MayerNadal forced to rally from a set down for second consecutive match 1.47am BST That\u2019s all for now. Thanks for following along with us and do check back later for more coverage from Flushing Meadows. 1.46am BST \u201cI [&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-5040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040","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=5040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}