{"id":6779,"date":"2013-06-25T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T06:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=6779"},"modified":"2013-06-25T14:05:43","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T06:05:43","slug":"philosophical-ebden-ready-for-nishikori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/06\/25\/philosophical-ebden-ready-for-nishikori","title":{"rendered":"Philosophical Ebden ready for Nishikori"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/06\/25\/philosophical-ebden-ready-for-nishikori\/attachment\/matt-ebden-4\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6781\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/06\/Matt-Ebden-410x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Playing in his second Wimbledon main draw, 25-year-old Matt Ebden was philosophical when he learned of his first-round opponent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s obviously a really good player but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the worst draw I could get and it\u2019s not the best draw I could get.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if I\u2019m looking to try get through a few matches you\u2019re going to be in a seeded section somewhere, so there\u2019s probably a lot of other seeds in other sections that could be tougher,\u201d he said regarding his upcoming opener against 11th seed and Japanese No.1 Kei Nishikori.<\/p>\n<p>Currently ranked just outside the top 100, Ebden received a wildcard into the main draw following his win at the Nottingham Challenger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really enjoying playing on the grass, I always have, and it\u2019s nice to be finding my game in the last few weeks. It\u2019s definitely a good place to play well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With solid preparation on his side and the memory of a five-set scrap with Nishikori at Australian Open 2012 fresh in his mind, Ebden believes he\u2019s a chance of pulling off an early tournament upset.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a good opportunity for me. I obviously played him a couple of years ago at the Aussie Open and I almost had him in straight sets and then he came back and got me in the fifth, so I\u2019ll take a lot of confidence from that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just enjoying playing good tennis and just looking forward to playing the best tennis I can in the next week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing in his second Wimbledon main draw, 25-year-old Matt Ebden was philosophical when he learned of his first-round opponent. \u201cHe\u2019s obviously a really good player but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s the worst draw I could get and it\u2019s not the best draw I could get. \u201cBut if I\u2019m looking to try get through a few [&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-6779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779","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=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}