{"id":3973,"date":"2018-01-04T17:56:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T12:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=3973"},"modified":"2018-01-04T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T12:27:11","slug":"hopman-cup-roger-federer-shocked-by-german-teen-alexander-zverev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/hopman-cup-roger-federer-shocked-by-german-teen-alexander-zverev\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopman Cup: Roger Federer shocked by German teen Alexander Zverev"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not many tennis players can boast a winning head-to-head record against the great Roger Federer — but teenager Alexander Zverev can do just that.<\/h2>\n

\"Roger<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old German prodigy beat his rather more illustrious Swiss counterpart 7-6 6-7 7-6 in Wednesday’s Hopman Cup match to take an overall 2-1 career lead.<\/p>\n

Federer beat Dan Evans in straight sets on his return from a six-month injury layoff Monday as Switzerland overcame Great Britain 3-0.<\/p>\n

\"hopman<\/p>\n

He was to have no such luck against Zverev, however, as defeat saw Germany take a 1-0 lead over Switzerland Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\"\"“To\u00a0beat Roger, you really have to play an unbelievable match, from the first point to the last. I thought we both played really well,” Zverev said courtside after his win.<\/p>\n

“I always play unbelievably against him. It’s always nerve-racking to play against him. I always play in front of a big crowd which helps me a lot as well.”<\/p>\n

Zverev’s previous win against the 17-time grand slam champion came in the semifinals at Halle last year, while Federer had the upper hand at the Rome Masters.
\nIt was also a day to remember for an emotional mascot who couldn’t hold back her tears after meeting Federer.<\/p>\n

Hopman Cup: Roger Federer shocked by German teen Alexander Zverev<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not many tennis players can boast a winning head-to-head record against the great Roger Federer — but teenager Alexander Zverev can do just that. The 19-year-old German prodigy beat his rather more illustrious Swiss counterpart 7-6 6-7 7-6 in Wednesday’s Hopman Cup match to take an overall 2-1 career lead. Federer beat Dan Evans in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5747,5746,5748],"class_list":["post-3973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-hopman-cup","tag-roger-fedrer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}