{"id":24777,"date":"2014-10-22T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/federer-to-play-dimitrov-in-msg-exhibition\/"},"modified":"2014-10-22T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T10:47:00","slug":"federer-to-play-dimitrov-in-msg-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/federer-to-play-dimitrov-in-msg-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Federer to play Dimitrov in MSG exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Former world No. 1 great Roger Federer will play &#8220;Baby Fed&#8221; in an exhibition tennis match at Madison Square Garden in March.<\/p>\n<p>World No. 11 Grigor Dimitrov, whose playing style reminds some of the 17-time Grand Slam champion Federer, will battle the Swiss icon in the eighth edition of the BNP Paribas Showdown on March 10.<\/p>\n<p>This will mark the currently second-ranked Federer&#8217;s third time playing at MSG. He faced former No. 1 great Pete Sampras in 2008 and former top-ranked star Andy Roddick in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Federer is 1-0 versus Dimitrov on the ATP World Tour, with the victory coming in straight sets in a quarterfinal in the Swiss&#8217; hometown of Basel last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Former world No. 1 great Roger Federer will play &#8220;Baby Fed&#8221; in an exhibition tennis match at Madison Square Garden in March. World No. 11 Grigor Dimitrov, whose playing style reminds some of the 17-time Grand Slam champion Federer, will battle the Swiss icon in the eighth edition of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}