{"id":2526,"date":"2014-06-05T11:38:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T04:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2014-06-05T11:40:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T04:40:14","slug":"petkovic-and-simona-halep-reach-first-semifinal-at-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/petkovic-and-simona-halep-reach-first-semifinal-at-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Petkovic and Simona Halep reach first semifinal at French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris &#8211; Andrea Petkovic and Simona Halep completed the French Open semifinal pairings with straight-set wins Wednesday, and one of them will be in a Grand Slam final for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Petkovic, a 28th-seeded German, beat 2012 French Open runner-up Sara Errani of Italy 6-2, 6-2. The fourth-seeded Halep defeated 2009 champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, also 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I have to say, today I was in a real zone. I didn&#8217;t think at all,&#8221; Petkovic said. &#8221;I was just focused on what I had to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Neither Petkovic nor Halep has ever played in the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament. But they will meet on Thursday with a spot in the final against either Maria Sharapova or Eugenie Bouchard on the line.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2014\/06\/petkovic-beats-errani-reach-first-grand-slam-semifinal-french-open\/51663\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Sport News <a title=\"Tennis\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/tennis\/\">Tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris &#8211; Andrea Petkovic and Simona Halep completed the French Open semifinal pairings with straight-set wins Wednesday, and one of them will be in a Grand Slam final for the first time. Petkovic, a 28th-seeded German, beat 2012 French Open runner-up Sara Errani of Italy 6-2, 6-2. The fourth-seeded Halep defeated 2009 champion Svetlana Kuznetsova, [&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":[539,413,249,538,30,183,537,261,408,114,120,80,188],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-2014-french-open","tag-andrea-petkovic","tag-french-open","tag-halep","tag-news","tag-paris","tag-petkovic","tag-roland-garros","tag-simona-halep","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","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=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}