{"id":31184,"date":"2022-06-24T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/a-qa-with-dick-savitt-the-self-taught-tennis-player#id32050"},"modified":"2022-06-24T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T21:26:00","slug":"a-qampa-with-dick-savitt-the-self-taught-tennis-player-who-won-the-australian-open-and-wimbledon-in-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/a-qampa-with-dick-savitt-the-self-taught-tennis-player-who-won-the-australian-open-and-wimbledon-in-1951\/","title":{"rendered":"A Q&amp;amp;A with Dick Savitt, the self-taught tennis player who won the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 1951."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>If you played with a guy who was a better volleyer than you, you knew you needed to work on your volley. I remember helping Ashe with his backhand. We would play at Columbia or in the park. Once in a while we got a few beers afterward.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/23\/nyregion\/savitt-wimbledon-tennis.html\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/a-qa-with-dick-savitt-the-self-taught-tennis-player\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        If you played with a guy who was a better volleyer than you, you knew you needed to work on your volley. I remember helping Ashe with his backhand. We would play at Columbia or in the park. Once in a while we got a few be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31185,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31184\/revisions\/31185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}