{"id":26457,"date":"2016-06-29T02:25:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T02:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/wimbledon-kevin-anderson-angry-at-death-threats\/"},"modified":"2016-06-29T02:23:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T02:23:38","slug":"wimbledon-kevin-anderson-angry-at-death-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wimbledon-kevin-anderson-angry-at-death-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon: Kevin Anderson angry at &#8216;death threats&#8217; after first-round loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Kevin Anderson has revealed he received &#8220;death threats&#8221; after his first-round loss at Wimbledon on Monday.}<\/p>\n<p>The South African world number 25 told BBC World Service Sport that he had received threats from people who had bet on his match against Denis Istomin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It pretty much happens after every match regardless of the circumstances,&#8221; the 30-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People who have bet on the match tend to take to social media and say very inappropriate things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anderson, who reached the fourth round of Wimbledon last year before losing to eventual champion Novak Djokovic, said abuse on social media was commonplace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just something you have to deal with as a professional athlete who is in the limelight,&#8221; added Anderson, who lost in five sets to Uzbekistan&#8217;s Istomin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can&#8217;t obviously read too much into it, you let it run off your back. It would be nicer if you didn&#8217;t [have to], but that&#8217;s the reality of the world we live in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13120 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_90144163_gettyimages-542487548.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Anderson is the top-ranked South African player\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Kevin Anderson has revealed he received &#8220;death threats&#8221; after his first-round loss at Wimbledon on Monday.} The South African world number 25 told BBC World Service Sport that he had received threats from people who had bet on his match against Denis Istomin. &#8220;It pretty much happens after every match regardless of the circumstances,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-26457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26457"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=26457"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=26457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}