{"id":248171,"date":"2026-01-20T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/248171\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:22:08","slug":"ao-2026-wawrinka-writing-final-chapter-with-pure-joy-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/248171\/","title":{"rendered":"AO 2026: Wawrinka writing final chapter with pure joy &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pushing to the limit<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve been working really hard to stay in shape, to push myself. I think also the week in United Cup helped me a lot because I played over three hours match back to back, plus a lot of tennis on the court, high level,\u201d stated the Swiss. \u201cIt got me a lot of confidence into what I&#8217;m able to do. But at the end I&#8217;m still 40-years-old and you never know what happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A quick rundown of his achievements \u2013 whether its lifting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/video\/archives-rg-classic-match-wawrinka-djokovic-final-2015\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three Grand Slams<\/a> in the \u2018Big 3\u2019 era, Olympic gold or Davis Cup silverware \u2013 Wawrinka has nothing to prove. However, the nerves still hit the greatest of champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmost all match. I&#8217;m always nervous,\u201d admitted Wawrinka with a smile, having just started his 75th major main draw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s always been positive for me. That&#8217;s mean I really care. That&#8217;s mean I really want to do well. I&#8217;m really pushing myself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s when you need to be really disciplined with yourself, with your brain, with what you have to do during the match. I think those match also a bit longer in five set always help me to relax, to be a bit more focused, to move a bit better. That was the case today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pushing to the limit \u201cI&#8217;ve been working really hard to stay in shape, to push myself. I think&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-248171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}