{"id":355104,"date":"2025-12-18T00:31:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/355104\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T00:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:31:23","slug":"fabio-fognini-channels-mj-in-smooth-criminal-performance-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/355104\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabio Fognini Channels MJ in Smooth Criminal Performance \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, December 16, 2025<br \/>Photo credit: Rob Newell\/CameraSport<\/p>\n<p>Fabio Fognini bid farewell to tennis after a five-set thriller vs. Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Showing fine footwork, Fognini channeled his inner Michael Jackson whirling in a Smooth Criminal performance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Pro-Player-Gear2.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54540\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>Watch Fognini and professional dancer Giada Lini rock the dance floor to Smooth Criminal on RAI\u2019s Italian Dancing with the Stars.<\/p>\n<p>A frisky Fognini starts the show striking an MJ pose then shows the moves that made him a former world No. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Fans in attendance saluted Fognini and Lini with a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>Fognini is one of several former Top 10 players to appear on various versions of Dancing with the Stars. Martina Navratilova, Martina Hingis and Monica Seles have also starred on the dance floor in past seasons:<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some stars strut their stuff on court:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, December 16, 2025Photo credit: Rob Newell\/CameraSport Fabio Fognini bid farewell to tennis after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-355104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}