{"id":71107,"date":"2022-07-06T16:34:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T16:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/he-s-a-dog-now-cameron-norrie-s-coach-on-his-chicken-s-rise-to-the-top"},"modified":"2022-07-06T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T16:34:42","slug":"he-s-a-dog-now-cameron-norrie-s-coach-on-his-chicken-s-rise-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/he-s-a-dog-now-cameron-norrie-s-coach-on-his-chicken-s-rise-to-the-top","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;He&#8217;s a dog now&#8217;: Cameron Norrie&#8217;s coach on his &#8216;chicken&#8217;s&#8217; rise to the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facundo Lugones and Cameron Norrie have come a long way since the rookie Argentinian coach guided his &#8216;chicken&#8217; through the lower rungs of professional tennis. Lugones and Norrie have worked together ever since meeting through the tennis programme at Texas Christian University, with coach and player learning together. Now the duo can celebrate a huge milestone as Norrie prepares to take on Novak Djokovic in his first grand slam semi-final at Wimbledon on Friday. &#8220;In Argentina when you&#8217;re taking care of someone, you call them your chicken,&#8221; said Lugones. &#8220;When I started traveling with him, all my friends would ask me, &#8216;How is your chicken doing?&#8217; He became a dog now. He&#8217;s not a chicken any more.&#8221; Norrie has burst into public consciousness this week but his has been a gradual climb to the top that has gathered pace brilliantly over the last couple of seasons. The 26-year-old became British number one after winning the big ATP tournament in Indian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facundo Lugones and Cameron Norrie have come a long way since the rookie Argentinian coach guided his &#8216;chicken&#8217; through the lower rungs of professional tennis.Lugones and Norrie have worked together<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[58,71],"class_list":["post-71107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}