{"id":2775,"date":"2014-06-25T08:46:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T01:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2775"},"modified":"2014-06-25T09:12:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T02:12:29","slug":"maria-sharapova-defeated-samantha-murray-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/maria-sharapova-defeated-samantha-murray-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Sharapova defeated Samantha Murray &#8211; Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; French Open champion Maria Sharapova defeated British wild-card entry Samantha Murray 6-1, 6-0 Tuesday in a first-round match at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth-seeded Sharapova won her first Grand Slam title at the All England club 10 years ago as a 17-year-old and added her fifth last month in a three-set win over Simona Halep at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Sharapova was perfect in converting all five of her break-point opportunities, while Murray failed to break the Russian&#8217;s serve in the 58-minute match. Murray also had six double-faults&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tennis News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2014\/06\/sharapova-easy-winner-in-1st-round-at-wimbledon\/51852\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; <a title=\"Tennis\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/tennis\/\">Tennis<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; French Open champion Maria Sharapova defeated British wild-card entry Samantha Murray 6-1, 6-0 Tuesday in a first-round match at Wimbledon. The fifth-seeded Sharapova won her first Grand Slam title at the All England club 10 years ago as a 17-year-old and added her fifth last month in a three-set win over Simona Halep [&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":[1157,703,256,1150,469,114,120,80,188,1272,337,343],"class_list":["post-2775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-2014-wimbledon","tag-london","tag-maria-sharapova","tag-samantha-murray","tag-sharapova","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775","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=2775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}