{"id":2423,"date":"2014-06-02T09:21:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T02:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2014-06-02T09:21:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T02:21:04","slug":"maria-sharapova-battles-past-sam-stosur-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/maria-sharapova-battles-past-sam-stosur-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Sharapova battles past Sam Stosur &#8211; French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Sharapova called the shots pushing Samantha Stosur around the court in the past. But the red clay resembled a slippery slope as the seventh-seeded Russian stared down a one set, 3-4 deficit today.<\/p>\n<p>Refusing to stumble, Sharapova stepped up to the baseline and charged back like a woman running downhill. Regaining her range, Sharapova ran off nine games in a row shoving Stosur right out of the draw, 3-6, 6-4, 6-0 to advance to her eighth French Open quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p>It was Sharapova&#8217;s 17th win in her last 18 matches in Paris as she steps toward a third straight Roland Garros final&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2014\/06\/reaction-sharapova-d-stosur\/51640\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Tennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Sharapova called the shots pushing Samantha Stosur around the court in the past. But the red clay resembled a slippery slope as the seventh-seeded Russian stared down a one set, 3-4 deficit today. Refusing to stumble, Sharapova stepped up to the baseline and charged back like a woman running downhill. Regaining her range, Sharapova [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[249,260,256,183,261,259,257,258,114,120,1272],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-french-open","tag-french-open-quarterfinal","tag-maria-sharapova","tag-paris","tag-roland-garros","tag-russian","tag-sam-stosur","tag-samantha-stosur","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}