{"id":2877,"date":"2014-07-02T08:56:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T01:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2014-07-02T08:56:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T01:56:50","slug":"maria-sharapova-falls-to-angelique-kerber-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/maria-sharapova-falls-to-angelique-kerber-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Sharapova falls to Angelique Kerber &#8211; Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; Former champion Maria Sharapova saved six match points before falling to Angelique Kerber in the fourth round at Wimbledon on Tuesday, ending her bid to win a second title at the All England Club a decade after her first.<\/p>\n<p>Sharapova, a five-time major champion, saved one match point at 5-2 down in the third set and five more in the final game before hitting a backhand long on the seventh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tennis News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2014\/07\/sharapova-stumbles-fourth-round-wimbledon-loss-kerber\/51960\/\" 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; Former champion Maria Sharapova saved six match points before falling to Angelique Kerber in the fourth round at Wimbledon on Tuesday, ending her bid to win a second title at the All England Club a decade after her first. Sharapova, a five-time major champion, saved one match point at 5-2 down in the [&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":[1157,1190,256,114,120,80,188,1272,337,343],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-2014-wimbledon","tag-angelique-kerber","tag-maria-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\/2877","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=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}