{"id":713,"date":"2012-03-27T09:28:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavytopspin.com\/?p=713"},"modified":"2012-03-27T09:28:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T13:28:43","slug":"2012-miami-projections-fourth-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/27\/2012-miami-projections-fourth-round\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Miami Projections: Fourth Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Men&#8217;s tennis may be <a title=\"Seeds Firmly\u00a0Planted\" href=\"http:\/\/tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/25\/seeds-firmly-planted\/\">predictable<\/a> these days, but it&#8217;s not\u00a0<em>that<\/em> predictable. \u00a0Andy Roddick beat Roger Federer last night, handing Federer his first loss in a best-of-three since August, sending home the hottest player in the game. \u00a0(It&#8217;s also Fed&#8217;s first lost to anyone outside of the top 20 in almost two years. The last one was his 2010 loss to Lleyton Hewitt in Halle.) Federer&#8217;s exit makes life easier for Novak Djokovic, who would&#8217;ve faced Fed in the semis, and does an even bigger favor for Mardy Fish, who would&#8217;ve played Roger in the quarters.<\/p>\n<p>11 of the top 16 seeds are still alive, but things have definitely gotten more interesting.<\/p>\n<pre>Player                        QF     SF      F      W  \n(1)Novak Djokovic          80.5%  56.5%  45.4%  30.0%  \n(17)Richard Gasquet        19.5%   7.2%   3.6%   1.2%  \n(11)Juan Martin Del Potro  62.6%  25.2%  17.1%   8.7%  \n(5)David Ferrer            37.4%  11.1%   6.2%   2.4%  \n\n(31)Andy Roddick           55.6%  25.6%   6.8%   2.2%  \n(21)Juan Monaco            44.4%  18.0%   4.0%   1.1%  \n(12)Nicolas Almagro        41.0%  21.0%   5.4%   1.6%  \n(8)Mardy Fish              59.0%  35.5%  11.5%   4.5%  \n\nPlayer                        QF     SF      F      W  \nGrigor Dimitrov            35.3%   7.7%   1.8%   0.4%  \n(9)Janko Tipsarevic        64.7%  21.5%   7.4%   2.5%  \n(13)Gilles Simon           27.0%  14.9%   5.2%   1.7%  \n(4)Andy Murray             73.0%  55.9%  32.5%  17.9%  \n\n(6)Jo-Wilfried Tsonga      65.4%  29.2%  14.9%   6.7%  \n(19)Florian Mayer          34.6%  10.5%   3.8%   1.2%  \n(16)Kei Nishikori          31.4%  14.9%   6.5%   2.5%  \n(2)Rafael Nadal            68.6%  45.4%  27.9%  15.5%<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men&#8217;s tennis may be predictable these days, but it&#8217;s not\u00a0that predictable. \u00a0Andy Roddick beat Roger Federer last night, handing Federer his first loss in a best-of-three since August, sending home the hottest player in the game. \u00a0(It&#8217;s also Fed&#8217;s first lost to anyone outside of the top 20 in almost two years. The last one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/27\/2012-miami-projections-fourth-round\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2012 Miami Projections: Fourth Round<\/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":[40,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forecasting","category-miami"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","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=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisabstract.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}