{"id":2467,"date":"2014-06-03T11:22:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T04:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2014-06-03T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T04:22:35","slug":"simona-halep-will-face-svetlana-kuznetsova-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/simona-halep-will-face-svetlana-kuznetsova-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Simona Halep will face Svetlana Kuznetsova – French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simona Halep will face Svetlana Kuznetsova in her first French Open quarter-final after seeing off the challenge of Sloane Stephens.<\/p>\n

Halep won six titles in a breakthrough 2013 and has continued her progress this year, with a quarter-final appearance in January’s Australian Open marking the first time she had reached the last eight of a grand slam.<\/p>\n

The Romanian achieved the feat again on the Roland Garros clay courtesy of a 6-4 6-3 win over the 15th seed from the United States.<\/p>\n

Stephens was broken six times – three times in each set – and her struggles on serve ultimately proved costly.<\/p>\n

She also made 35 unforced errors and although Halep did not produce a vintage performance, she did what she needed to do to win.<\/p>\n

Halep will now meet Kuznetsova, the 2009 French Open champion, who beat Czech Lucie Safarova 6-3 6-4 in just 80 minutes.<\/p>\n

The Russian made three breaks in the first set to seize control and never looked back, adding another three in the second…<\/p>\n

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Simona Halep will face Svetlana Kuznetsova in her first French Open quarter-final after seeing off the challenge of Sloane Stephens. Halep won six titles in a breakthrough 2013 and has continued her progress this year, with a quarter-final appearance in January’s Australian Open marking the first time she had reached the last eight of a […]<\/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":[411,249,410,412,30,261,259,408,114,120,80,188,409,337],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-australian-open","tag-french-open","tag-french-open-quarter-final","tag-lucie-safarova","tag-news","tag-roland-garros","tag-russian","tag-simona-halep","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-svetlana-kuznetsova","tag-tennis-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","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=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}