{"id":195443,"date":"2019-03-01T00:56:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T23:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=195443"},"modified":"2019-02-28T23:48:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T22:48:28","slug":"federer-inches-close-to-100-atp-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=195443","title":{"rendered":"Federer  Inches Close To 100 ATP Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Roger Federer claimed his 50th win of the Dubai Tennis Championships by beating Spain\u2019s Fernando Verdasco in three sets to reach the quarter-finals.<br> Federer moves a step closer to his 100th ATP singles title with Wednesday\u2019s 6-3 3-6 6-3 victory.<br> The 20-time Grand Slam winner, 37, will face Hungarian world number 35 Marton Fucsovics for a place in the last four.<br> Meanwhile, there was a shock defeat for top seed Kei Nishikori against Polish qualifier Hubert Hurkacz.<br> Hurkacz converted six out of seven break points to beat his Japanese opponent 7-5 5-7 6-2.<br> If Federer claims a record eighth title in Dubai, he will claim a century of ATP victories, with only American Jimmy Connors ahead of him on 109.<br> Fucsovics set up his quarter-final against second seed Federer with a 6-4 6-2 win over Germany\u2019s\u00a0Jan-Lennard Struff.<br> Frenchman\u00a0Gael Monfils\u00a0eased to a 6-3 6-2 win over\u00a0Marcos Baghdatis\u00a0of Cyprus, while Spain\u2019s\u00a0Roberto Bautista Agut\u00a0was beaten by Georgian\u00a0Nikoloz Basilashvili\u00a06-7 (2-7) 6-4 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Federer claimed his 50th win of the Dubai Tennis Championships by beating Spain\u2019s Fernando Verdasco in three sets to reach the quarter-finals. Federer moves a step closer to his 100th ATP singles title with Wednesday\u2019s 6-3 3-6 6-3 victory. The 20-time Grand Slam winner, 37, will face Hungarian world number 35 Marton Fucsovics for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}