Well, the outspoken Australian never needs much persuading to share his thoughts \u2014 here\u2019s what he said back at the U.S. Open in September on the subject of today\u2019s match:<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcac \u201cGetting to know her, she\u2019s definitely a character. I\u2019m super excited for that. She\u2019s the type of player who genuinely thinks she\u2019s going to win. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe is not gonna beat me. Do you really think I have to try 100 per cent? I\u2019m gonna try. Because I\u2019m representing the men\u2019s side. I\u2019d say like 6-2 maybe.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to go there and say, \u2018Oh, she\u2019s so good, I can\u2019t play this.\u2019 That would make me look so bad. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d imagine the internet would go crazy \u2014 go bananas. I mean, our serves, women can\u2019t really return those. And then we can just chip and drop shot.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to be OK. I\u2019m going to go there, and I don\u2019t want her to win. That\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, the outspoken Australian never needs much persuading to share his thoughts \u2014 here\u2019s what he said back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-373323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}