{"id":254,"date":"2014-01-05T05:59:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T05:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=254"},"modified":"2014-01-05T05:59:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T05:59:27","slug":"rafael-nadal-wins-qatar-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/tennis\/rafael-nadal-wins-qatar-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal Wins Qatar Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Rafael Nadal has defeated France&#8217;s Gael Monfils 6-1, 6-7 (5-7), 6-2 to win the ATP Tour&#8217;s Qatar Open.<\/p>\n<p>It was Nadal&#8217;s 61st career title and took him to eighth on the all-time list, passing Andre Agassi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never had the chance to win here before. I had match points against Davydenko in the final a few years back,&#8221; Nadal said on Saturday. He was runner-up to Russia&#8217;s Nikolay Davydenko in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy to start the season like this, it&#8217;s the first time I have won a title in the first week of the year and it&#8217;s a great way to start the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Rafael Nadal has defeated France&#8217;s Gael Monfils 6-1, 6-7 (5-7), 6-2 to win the ATP Tour&#8217;s Qatar Open. It was Nadal&#8217;s 61st career title and took him to eighth on the all-time list, passing Andre Agassi. &#8220;I never had the chance to win here before. I had match points against Davydenko in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}