{"id":162,"date":"2014-01-01T21:44:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T21:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=162"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:16:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T22:16:12","slug":"andy-murray-loses-to-florian-mayer-at-qatar-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/tennis\/andy-murray-loses-to-florian-mayer-at-qatar-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray loses to Florian Mayer at Qatar Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon champion Andy Murray suffered a setback on his return from injury as he lost in three sets to Germany&#8217;s Florian Mayer at the Qatar Open.<\/p>\n<p>Murray, playing his second tour match\u00a0<b>since recovering from back surgery,<\/b>\u00a0was beaten 3-6 6-4 6-2 in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot, 26, had led by a set and 3-0 but won just three more games as Mayer took control.<\/p>\n<p>Murray and Serbia&#8217;s Nenad Zimonjic then lost 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 to Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares in the doubles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am stiff and sore but that&#8217;s to be expected,&#8221; said Murray. &#8220;It&#8217;s more the joints rather than muscles. I have to get used to changing direction and playing at this level again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t have high expectations because I have not had many matches. I was playing well and moving well at the beginning. I lost two matches but got through without any niggles or injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After Doha, Murray will head to Melbourne for the Australian Open, which begins on 13 January. He will go into the year&#8217;s first Grand Slam having played two exhibition and two ATP Tour singles matches.<\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon champion Andy Murray suffered a setback on his return from injury as he lost in three sets to Germany&#8217;s Florian Mayer at the Qatar Open. Murray, playing his second tour match\u00a0since recovering from back surgery,\u00a0was beaten 3-6 6-4 6-2 in the second round. The Scot, 26, had led by a set and 3-0 but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[102,14],"tags":[37,125,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}