In 2014, Wawrinka was 28 years old when he stepped on to Rod Laver Arena for a quarterfinal againt defending champion Djokovic, the phenom who had defeated him on 14 consecutive occasions. Wawrinka\u2019s epic 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 9-7 victory didn\u2019t just snap Djokovic\u2019s 28-match winning streak, it also unleashed peak Wawrinka \u2013 the very best version of the powerhouse from Lausanne had arrived.<\/p>\n
Wawrinka fired past Nadal in the 2014 Australian Open final for his first major title, then carried that new-found swagger into Paris 15 months later, scoring another victory over peaking Djokovic in the final.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Djokovic was the force that held sway at the top of the sport, but hurricane Wawrinka blew through court Philippe-Chatrier, producing an earth-shattering 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 victory that etched him into the fabric of the Parisian Slam for eternity.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2014, Wawrinka was 28 years old when he stepped on to Rod Laver Arena for a quarterfinal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-664863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664863","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=664863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}