{"id":18689,"date":"2013-03-12T14:50:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T12:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/federer-joins-connors-lendl-and-vilas\/"},"modified":"2013-03-12T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T12:50:17","slug":"federer-joins-connors-lendl-and-vilas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/federer-joins-connors-lendl-and-vilas\/","title":{"rendered":"Federer joins Connors, Lendl and Vilas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN WELLS, California \u2013 Despite tweaking his back, Switzerland\u2019s defending champ Roger Federer beat Ivan Dodig of Croatia in a third-round match at the BNP Paribas Open on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Azarenka, the defending women\u2019s champion, needed three sets to move on.<\/p>\n<p>Federer earned his 890th career ATP Tour victory, joining Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl and Guillermo Vilas as the only men to have won at least that many matches in the Open era.<\/p>\n<p>The second-ranked Federer is seeking his first tournament title of the year at an event where he has won four championships and has a 41-8 career record.<\/p>\n<p>Federer was the highest-seeded men\u2019s player in action Monday. He has Tuesday off to give his back a rest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not too worried. I have gone through it so many times where you feel a little tweak,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappened during Grand Slams, during tournaments, in practice. It\u2019s just something you learn to deal with.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_268757\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=JlXSE5d7\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN WELLS, California \u2013 Despite tweaking his back, Switzerland\u2019s defending champ Roger Federer beat Ivan Dodig of Croatia in a third-round match at the BNP Paribas Open on Monday. Victoria Azarenka, the defending women\u2019s champion, needed three sets to move on. Federer earned his 890th career ATP Tour victory, joining Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl and [&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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","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\/18689","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=18689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}