{"id":11019,"date":"2012-06-02T10:34:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T08:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/wrapup-1-tennis-federer-and-djokovic-beat-crowd-favourites\/"},"modified":"2012-06-02T10:34:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T08:34:03","slug":"wrapup-1-tennis-federer-and-djokovic-beat-crowd-favourites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wrapup-1-tennis-federer-and-djokovic-beat-crowd-favourites\/","title":{"rendered":"WRAPUP 1-Tennis-Federer and Djokovic beat crowd favourites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Federer survives second-set loss to win<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Djokovic reaches fourth round easily<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Women&#8217;s third seed Radwanska goes out<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Clare Fallon<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>PARIS, June 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic<br \/>\nfaced fired-up Frenchmen and partisan crowds at Roland Garros on<br \/>\nFriday, and took differing routes to negotiate safely past them<br \/>\ninto the fourth round of the grand slam.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Third seed and former champion Federer looked less than<br \/>\nsuperhuman when he had to recover from a second-set loss to beat<br \/>\nNicolas Mahut 6-3 4-6 6-2 7-5 on Philippe Chatrier Court.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Over on Suzanne Lenglen Court, as the sun was starting to<br \/>\nset, top seed Djokovic had an entertaining, though one-sided,<br \/>\n6-1 6-2 6-2 win over Nicolas Devilder, the lowest-ranked man<br \/>\nleft in the draw at 286th.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s draw lost third seed Agnieszka Radwanska and<br \/>\nformer champion Ana Ivanovic, seeded 13th.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Radwanska looked uneasy in a 6-1 6-2 loss to 2009 French<br \/>\nchampion Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia, while Ivanovic blamed<br \/>\nherself for being &#8220;flat-footed&#8221; in a 1-6 7-5 6-3 defeat by<br \/>\nItaly&#8217;s Sara Errani.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Federer survives second-set loss to win * Djokovic reaches fourth round easily * Women&#8217;s third seed Radwanska goes out By Clare Fallon PARIS, June 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic faced fired-up Frenchmen and partisan crowds at Roland Garros on Friday, and took differing routes to negotiate safely past them into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}