{"id":26713,"date":"2013-09-05T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T21:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=26713"},"modified":"2013-09-05T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T21:16:40","slug":"def-champ-andy-murray-ousted-from-u-s-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=26713","title":{"rendered":"Def. Champ Andy Murray Ousted From U.S. Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP Sept 5, 2013) &#8211; Andy Murray&#8217;s reign as defending U.S. Open champion ended Thursday in a surprising, frustration-filled 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 quarterfinal loss to ninth-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Third-seeded Murray won his first Grand Slam title at Flushing Meadows last year and his second at Wimbledon this July. But he was overmatched from the beginning on a blustery day in Arthur Ashe Stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After making 15 unforced errors against only eight winners in the first set, Murray cracked his racket on the court, then mangled it after walking over to the sideline.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This marks the first time since 2010 &#8211; when he lost in the third round to Wawrinka &#8211; that Murray failed to reach the semifinals at the U.S. Open.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wawrinka reached his first Grand Slam semifinal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0NEW YORK (AP Sept 5, 2013) &#8211; Andy Murray&#8217;s reign as defending U.S. Open champion ended Thursday in a surprising, frustration-filled 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 quarterfinal loss to ninth-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Third-seeded Murray won his first Grand Slam title at Flushing Meadows last year and his second at Wimbledon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26714,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26713\/revisions\/26714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}