{"id":5652,"date":"2013-02-23T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T06:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2013-02-23T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T06:38:11","slug":"tomic-narrowly-misses-big-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/02\/23\/tomic-narrowly-misses-big-win","title":{"rendered":"Tomic narrowly misses big win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/02\/23\/tomic-narrowly-misses-big-win\/attachment\/tomic-4-460x306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5653\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5653\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/02\/Tomic-4-460x306-410x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Bernard Tomic squandered five match points as he suffered a tight three-set defeat to French third seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the ATP Open 13 quarterfinals in Marseille.<\/p>\n<p>Tsonga eventually prevailed 4-6 6-3 7-6(10) and will play his first semifinal of 2013 when he meets French compatriot Gilles Simon for a place in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Simon beat second-seeded Argentine Juan Martin del Potro, last weekend\u2019s Rotterdam champion, who needed treatment on a thigh injury, 6-4 6-3 in his quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt I was playing better than him, but there were some holes in my game,\u201d said Tsonga after his match against 20-year-old Tomic, the world No.46.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to get through because it was very, very tense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday, Russian qualifier Dmitry Tursunov reached the last four with a 7-6(7) 1-6 7-5 victory over Gilles Muller, the big-serving player from Luxembourg.<\/p>\n<p>Tursunov will face top-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych, who beat Polish seventh seed Jerzy Janowicz 6-3 6-7(0) 6-3 for a berth in the final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s Bernard Tomic squandered five match points as he suffered a tight three-set defeat to French third seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the ATP Open 13 quarterfinals in Marseille. Tsonga eventually prevailed 4-6 6-3 7-6(10) and will play his first semifinal of 2013 when he meets French compatriot Gilles Simon for a place in the final. [&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-5652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652","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=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}