{"id":4714,"date":"2012-09-04T10:23:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T02:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=4714"},"modified":"2012-09-04T10:23:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T02:23:43","slug":"us-open-ebden-goes-down-to-chardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2012\/09\/04\/us-open-ebden-goes-down-to-chardy","title":{"rendered":"US Open: Ebden goes down to Chardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2012\/09\/Ebden-US-Open-3-460x306.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4715\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2012\/09\/Ebden-US-Open-3-460x306-410x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Matt Ebden\u2019s run at US Open 2012 has come to an end at the hands of No.32 seed Jeremy Chardy, who defeated the Australian in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>Ebden succumbed 6-4 6-2 6-2 to Chardy after unsuccessfully disputing a line dubious call that ultimately cost him the opening set.<\/p>\n<p>With games on serve until 4-4, Ebden let slip a 40-love lead, double-faulted to hand Chardy the game-point advantage and then protested when a forehand return from the 32nd seed was called in.<\/p>\n<p>It looked out but, with no replay challenges available on Court 8, Ebden\u2019s exchange with chair umpire Jake Garner was all in vain.<\/p>\n<p>After losing the following game to drop the set, it was all downhill for Ebden, with Chardy running away with the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was good quality I thought at the start. It was a very close match, we were both playing well on our serves, lots of points won by winners \u2026 he (then) got on top of me, I maybe let one or two serves go out,\u201d Ebden reflected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was tough from there. He\u2019s a player like that, when he gets up, he\u2019s a real frontrunner, you can see the confidence he plays with. He started smashing winners and aces everywhere, and it was uphill from there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Compounding Ebden\u2019s frustration was the realisation he\u2019d let slip a golden opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Had he won, the 24-year-old would have played unseeded Martin Klizan after the Slovak eliminated French fifth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a major surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Ebden\u2019s run at US Open 2012 has come to an end at the hands of No.32 seed Jeremy Chardy, who defeated the Australian in straight sets. Ebden succumbed 6-4 6-2 6-2 to Chardy after unsuccessfully disputing a line dubious call that ultimately cost him the opening set. With games on serve until 4-4, Ebden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}