{"id":11514,"date":"2012-06-15T23:23:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T21:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/tennis-teary-dimitrov-books-queens-semi-final-place\/"},"modified":"2012-06-15T23:23:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T21:23:51","slug":"tennis-teary-dimitrov-books-queens-semi-final-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/tennis-teary-dimitrov-books-queens-semi-final-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Teary Dimitrov books Queen&#8217;s semi-final place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Toby Davis<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, June 15<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Grigor Dimitrov cried when he<br \/>\nwon his quarter-final in the Wimbledon warm-up tournament at<br \/>\nQueen&#8217;s Club on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old Bulgarian, ranked 72 in the world, has never<br \/>\nwon a tour title and set up a semi-final clash against<br \/>\nArgentina&#8217;s David Nalbandian by beating South Africa&#8217;s world<br \/>\nnumber 30 Kevin Anderson 4-6 6-4 6-3.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got couple of tears,&#8221; Dimitrov told reporters. &#8220;It was a<br \/>\ngood moment. I always wanted to share this with the people that<br \/>\nI love so I was glad because my father was there, and I think it<br \/>\nwas a big moment for him mainly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the top seeds Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga<br \/>\nalready out and number three Janko Tipsarevic joining them<br \/>\nearlier on Friday after losing a third-round encounter to Lu<br \/>\nYen-Hsun, it was left to the lesser lights to entertain on the<br \/>\nWest London grass.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Marin Cilic moved into the semi-finals when his opponent Lu,<br \/>\nplaying his second game of the day after rain delays, retired<br \/>\nhurt midway through the second set.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cilic will play Sam Querrey, Queen&#8217;s champion in 2010, who<br \/>\nbeat Croatia&#8217;s Ivan Dodig 7-5 3-6 6-3.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nalbandian also appeared twice, first winning his third<br \/>\nround against Edouard Roger-Vasselin and then edging past Xavier<br \/>\nMalisse 4-6 7-6 6-4.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Editing by Clare Fallon)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Toby Davis LONDON, June 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Grigor Dimitrov cried when he won his quarter-final in the Wimbledon warm-up tournament at Queen&#8217;s Club on Friday. The 21-year-old Bulgarian, ranked 72 in the world, has never won a tour title and set up a semi-final clash against Argentina&#8217;s David Nalbandian by beating South Africa&#8217;s world [&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-11514","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\/11514","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=11514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}