{"id":642,"date":"2012-01-23T16:28:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T21:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.wordpress.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2012-01-23T16:28:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T21:28:57","slug":"australian-open-mens-quarterfinal-projections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/australian-open-mens-quarterfinal-projections\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open Men’s Quarterfinal Projections"},"content":{"rendered":"

The field is down to eight. It still includes the top five seeds and seven of the top ten players in the game, so there’s still plenty of uncertainty. Novak Djokovic<\/a> showed some chinks in the armor during yesterday’s match against Lleyton Hewitt<\/a>; Rafael Nadal<\/a> is never a lock on a hard court; Roger Federer<\/a> has what may be the toughest quarterfinal draw of the top four; and despite a drubbing<\/a> last time he played Andy Murray<\/a>, Kei Nishikori<\/a> is playing as well as ever.<\/p>\n

Oddly enough for such a steady player<\/a>, this is only David Ferrer<\/a>‘s second grand slam quarterfinal since 2008 and just his sixth quarterfinal in 36 career slams<\/a>. In his last slam quarter–Melbourne last year–he beat world number one Nadal. The odds will be even steeper against him this week.<\/p>\n

Player                        SF      F      W  \n(1)Novak Djokovic          75.4%  49.2%  31.0%  \n(5)David Ferrer            24.6%   9.6%   3.4%  \n(4)Andy Murray             66.5%  30.9%  16.2%  \n(24)Kei Nishikori          33.5%  10.4%   3.8%  \n\n(11)Juan Martin Del Potro  36.0%  14.0%   4.9%  \n(3)Roger Federer           64.0%  34.0%  16.4%  \n(7)Tomas Berdych           36.6%  15.9%   6.0%  \n(2)Rafael Nadal            63.4%  36.1%  18.3%<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The field is down to eight. It still includes the top five seeds and seven of the top ten players in the game, so there’s still plenty of uncertainty. Novak Djokovic showed some chinks in the armor during yesterday’s match against Lleyton Hewitt; Rafael Nadal is never a lock on a hard court; Roger Federer … Continue reading Australian Open Men’s Quarterfinal Projections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-open","category-forecasting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}