{"id":435270,"date":"2023-05-10T11:02:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435270"},"modified":"2023-05-10T11:03:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:03:36","slug":"wawrinka-through-to-next-round-after-rain-delay","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wawrinka-through-to-next-round-after-rain-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Wawrinka through to next round after rain delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Wawrinka emerged victorious in his first-round match of the Italian Open against Ilya Ivashka after a long delay due to heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p>Wawrinka dominated the majority of the game and won easily 6-2, 6-4 for a little more than an hour play. The 38-year old, who is the oldest player in the tournament, hit twice as many winners compared to Ivashka, including one on his first match point to seal the deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oldest player in the draw at 38 up and running in Rome\u00a0\ud83c\udfc3<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stanwawrinka?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@stanwawrinka<\/a> defeats Ivashka 6-2 6-4<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IBI23?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#IBI23<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eznfMWtjCz\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/eznfMWtjCz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1656267473635926016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nWawrinka faces 26th-seeded Grigor Dimitrov in the second round with the winner potentially going against world No.1 Novak Djokovic in the third round.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, who skips the first round, will meet Tomas Martin Etcheverry, who overcame 18-year-old Luca Van Assche 7-6 (7), 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Murray will go against 35-year old Fabio Fognini, who received a wild card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stan Wawrinka emerged victorious in his first-round match of the Italian Open against Ilya Ivashka after a long delay due to heavy rain. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":435271,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17769,17570,19054,16740,18113],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[8725,18114],"acf":{"announce":"The Swiss wasted no time in dispatching Ilya Ivashka","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435270"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435270"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}