{"id":2548,"date":"2014-06-06T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T03:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2014-06-06T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T03:22:51","slug":"rojer-and-groenefeld-win-the-french-open-mixed-doubles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/rojer-and-groenefeld-win-the-french-open-mixed-doubles-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Rojer and Groenefeld win the French Open mixed doubles title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paris – Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands and Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany won the mixed doubles title at the French Open by defeating eighth-seeded Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and Julia Goerges of Germany 4-6, 6-2, 10-7 on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Rojer was playing his first Grand Slam final while Groenefeld won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon with Mark Knowles of the Bahamas in 2009.<\/p>\n

“I gained a friend this week. I lost one, because I had to tell some other player that I’m not playing with her,” Rojer said. ”So I hope she understands, especially now. But I apologized like 18 times to her.”<\/p>\n

Rojer and Groenefeld were teaming up for the first time.<\/p>\n

“Actually, I was asking around,” Groenefeld said. ”No one wanted to play with me, and then he said yes.”<\/p>\n

They saved three match points in the semifinal against Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan and Bruno Soares of Brazil on Wednesday…<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n

South Africa Today Sport – Sport News Tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paris – Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands and Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany won the mixed doubles title at the French Open by defeating eighth-seeded Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and Julia Goerges of Germany 4-6, 6-2, 10-7 on Thursday. Rojer was playing his first Grand Slam final while Groenefeld won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon […]<\/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":[539,556,249,554,555,558,557,30,114,120,80,188,1272,337],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-2014-french-open","tag-anna-lena-groenefeld","tag-french-open","tag-french-open-mixed-doubles","tag-jean-julien-rojer","tag-julia-goerges","tag-nenad-zimonjic","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","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=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}