{"id":970,"date":"2008-11-01T22:09:47","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T06:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/?p=970"},"modified":"2008-11-01T22:09:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T06:09:47","slug":"halloween-hangover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/halloween-hangover\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Hangover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A quick note explaining why I\u2019m in recovery from Halloween and why you should join us tomorrow to look at the Paris final.<\/b><\/p>\n<p \/><a href='http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/neon-superhero.jpg' title='Neon Superhero (Photo by Nina Rota\/tennisdiary.com)'><img src='http:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/neon-superhero-150x150.jpg' alt='Neon Superhero (Photo by Nina Rota\/tennisdiary.com)' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>I\u2019m supposed to write today but I haven\u2019t been able to recover from Halloween. I went to the West Hollywood Halloween Street Party last night to see the show and a show it was \u2013 thousands of people, rolling DJ platforms, two stages, plenty of dressed up Sarah Palins (many, of course, in drag), a few John McCains, an entire band of medieval Samurai, and a neon superhero. Not sure I\u2019d go again, though. It took an hour and a half to find a bus and just as it got close to my destination, some sadly drunk person threw up all over the bus.<\/p>\n<p \/>Anyway, I\u2019ll be writing tomorrow instead and that\u2019s not so bad because I\u2019ll cover the Paris final and whoever wins it gets the eighth and final place in the year end championships. In the semifinals today, <b>David Nalbandian<\/b> hung on to beat <b>Nikolay Davydenko<\/b> in three sets and <b>Jo-Wilfried Tsonga<\/b> just smashed <b>James Blake<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p \/>I certainly didn\u2019t expect Nalbandian to be anywhere close to a Shanghai appearance after his mixed results earlier this year even though he almost pulled it off late last year and ended up one ranking place out of the running. I hoped against hope that Tsonga would recover from his perennially injured status long enough to put a serious run of tournaments together and he has.<\/p>\n<p \/>It\u2019s not very often that the last match of the regular season means this much so join me tomorrow to look at what happened.<\/p>\n<p \/>Whaddya think, Nalbandian or Tsonga?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick note explaining why I\u2019m in recovery from Halloween and why you should join us tomorrow to look at the Paris final. I\u2019m supposed to write today but I haven\u2019t been able to recover from Halloween. I went to the West Hollywood Halloween Street Party last night to see the show and a show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2087,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/2087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninarota.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}