{"id":2789,"date":"2014-06-26T08:33:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T01:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2014-06-26T08:33:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T01:33:56","slug":"li-na-defeated-yvonne-meusburger-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/li-na-defeated-yvonne-meusburger-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Li Na defeated Yvonne Meusburger &#8211; Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) &#8212; Li Na has always been willing to speak her mind, often with a dose of humor, whether she&#8217;s criticizing her husband in a stadium interview for snoring or correcting a reporter for a question that might not have told the whole story.<\/p>\n<p>Li was at it again Wednesday after her 6-2, 6-2 second-round win over Yvonne Meusburger at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Her ever-improving English has helped, along with the respect that two Grand Slam titles &#8211; the 2011 French Open and this year&#8217;s Australian Open &#8211; brings.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what her favorite court surface was, grass or clay, she deadpanned: &#8220;Hard court.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tennis News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2014\/06\/li-na-advances-to-3rd-round-at-wimbledon\/51867\/\" 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 (AP) &#8212; Li Na has always been willing to speak her mind, often with a dose of humor, whether she&#8217;s criticizing her husband in a stadium interview for snoring or correcting a reporter for a question that might not have told the whole story. Li was at it again Wednesday after her 6-2, 6-2 [&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":[1157,1161,703,114,120,80,188,1272,337,343,1162],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-2014-wimbledon","tag-li-na","tag-london","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-wimbledon","tag-yvonne-meusburger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","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=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}