{"id":25633,"date":"2014-11-11T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/federer-will-lead-swiss-in-davis-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2014-11-11T20:30:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T20:30:47","slug":"federer-will-lead-swiss-in-davis-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/federer-will-lead-swiss-in-davis-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Federer will lead Swiss in Davis Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London, England (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Roger Federer will lead visiting Switzerland against host France in next week&#8217;s 2014 Davis Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss squad will feature the world No. 2 Wimbledon runner-up Federer, fourth-ranked Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka, Marco Chiudinelli and Michael Lammer, but Federer and Wawrinka are expected to play in all the meaningful rubbers.<\/p>\n<p>Team France will counter with No. 12 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Richard Gasquet, Gael Monfils and Julien Benneteau.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland is captained by Severin Luthi, while the French are guided by former Aussie Open runner-up Arnaud Clement.<\/p>\n<p>The best-of&#8211;five tie will be staged on indoor red clay at Stade Pierre Mauroy in Lille, France.<\/p>\n<p>The French are 10-2 all-time versus the Swiss in Davis Cup play. The two nations last met in a 2004 quarterfinal that was won by France.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-time champion French are seeking their first Davis Cup title in 13 years, while Switzerland and the 33-year-old 17-time Grand Slam champion Federer have never hoisted the coveted 114-year-old chalice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, England (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Roger Federer will lead visiting Switzerland against host France in next week&#8217;s 2014 Davis Cup final. The Swiss squad will feature the world No. 2 Wimbledon runner-up Federer, fourth-ranked Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka, Marco Chiudinelli and Michael Lammer, but Federer and Wawrinka are expected to play in all the meaningful [&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-25633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25633","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=25633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25637,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25633\/revisions\/25637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}