{"id":149893,"date":"2018-01-30T05:09:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T10:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=149893"},"modified":"2018-01-30T05:09:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T10:09:29","slug":"zverev-poorer-and-poorly-pulls-out-of-davis-cup-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/30\/zverev-poorer-and-poorly-pulls-out-of-davis-cup-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Zverev, poorer and poorly, pulls out of Davis Cup tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_149897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149897\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mischa-Zverev.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149897\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mischa-Zverev.jpg\" alt=\"Mischa Zverev has withdrawn from Germany's Davis Cup team for the first-round tie against Australia, starting Friday, with a continuation of the illness which brought him a record fine for his first-round retirement at the Australian Open. (Photo: Mischa Zverev\/Facebook)\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mischa-Zverev.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mischa-Zverev-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mischa Zverev has withdrawn from Germany&#8217;s Davis Cup team for the first-round tie against Australia, starting Friday, with a continuation of the illness which brought him a record fine for his first-round retirement at the Australian Open. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MischaZverev123\/photos\/a.652825044914296.1073741829.553324901530978\/782296668633799\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MischaZverev123\/\">Mischa Zverev\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BRISBANE, Australia \u2014 Mischa Zverev has withdrawn from Germany&#8217;s Davis Cup team for the first-round tie against Australia, starting Friday, with a continuation of the illness which brought him a record fine for his first-round retirement at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>Zverev was fined A$45,000 (US$36,000) in Melbourne when he quit while trailing South Korea&#8217;s Hyeon Chung 6-2, 4-1, citing illness. He was fined most of his first-round prize money under tennis&#8217;s new First Round Performance rule which requires players to \u201cperform to a professional standard\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Germany team captain Michael Kohlmann said Tuesday Zverev is still affected by a viral illness but had made a desperate effort to prove his fitness for the World Group tie.<\/p>\n<p>Kohlmann said \u201cI am feeling bad for him. He was trying everything to be here but in the end it didn&#8217;t make sense\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRISBANE, Australia \u2014 Mischa Zverev has withdrawn from Germany&#8217;s Davis Cup team for the first-round tie against Australia, starting Friday, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":149897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[45201,45200],"class_list":["post-149893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-davis-cup-tie","tag-mischa-zverev","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}