{"id":2814,"date":"2008-07-07T08:22:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T15:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2008-07-07T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T15:22:15","slug":"rod-laver-on-2008-wimbledon-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2814","title":{"rendered":"Rod Laver On 2008 Wimbledon Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/laver.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/laver.jpeg','popup','width=257,height=300,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/laver-tm.jpg\" height=\"233\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Laver\" \/><\/a><em>Carlbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rod_Laver\" target=\"_blank\">Rod Laver<\/a><\/strong> (they guy whose <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncrate.com\/men\/style\/shoes\/adidas-originals-rod-laver\/\" target=\"_blank\">shoes<\/a><\/strong> we have loved for years) watched the Wimbledon Finals in awe yesterday according to a <strong>Jay Paris<\/strong> story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/06\/sports\/paris\/zaef580e3701ade0d8825747e007ecd37.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was the best match I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; said Laver, the greatest tennis player ever. &#8220;I know (NBC&#8217;s) John McEnroe said that, and I have to agree him. I was watching it and thinking, &#8216;How do you win a point?&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was something,&#8221; said Laver, mimicking other drained fans after Sunday&#8217;s 4-hour, 48-minute final. &#8220;Seeing some of those shots that Nadal was hitting, you would think he would mis-hit a bunch of them. Those shots are coming off the grass where the bounces aren&#8217;t always even and it was windy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t lose any records, but winner <strong>Rafael Nadal<\/strong> joined <strong>Bjorn Borg<\/strong> and Mr. Laver as being the only three players in &#8220;the Open era&#8221; to win consecutive French Open and Wimbledon titles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/07\/06\/sports\/paris\/zaef580e3701ade0d8825747e007ecd37.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlbadistan&#8217;s Rod Laver (they guy whose shoes we have loved for years) watched the Wimbledon Finals in awe yesterday according to a Jay Paris story in the North County Times. It was the best match I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; said Laver, the greatest tennis player ever. &#8220;I know (NBC&#8217;s) John McEnroe said that, and I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}