{"id":2887,"date":"2014-07-03T08:18:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T01:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2014-07-03T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T01:18:30","slug":"eugenie-bouchard-defeated-angelique-kerber-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/eugenie-bouchard-defeated-angelique-kerber-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugenie Bouchard defeated Angelique Kerber &#8211; Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 13th-seeded Eugenie Bouchard defeated No. 9 Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-3, 6-4 to reach the semifinals at a third consecutive Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just excited to be in the semis again and I want to go one step further for sure,&#8221; Bouchard said.<\/p>\n<p>Halep, runner-up at the French Open, is the first Romanian woman to get this far at the All England Club since the Open era began in 1968. Bouchard, who hasn&#8217;t dropped a set in five matches, is the first Canadian woman to reach the Wimbledon semifinals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tennis News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2014\/07\/halep-wins-11-straight-games-to-beat-lisicki\/51978\/\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 13th-seeded Eugenie Bouchard defeated No. 9 Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-3, 6-4 to reach the semifinals at a third consecutive Grand Slam. &#8220;I&#8217;m just excited to be in the semis again and I want to go one step further for sure,&#8221; Bouchard said. Halep, runner-up at the French Open, is the first Romanian woman [&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":[1157,1190,467,114,120,80,188,1272,337,343],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-2014-wimbledon","tag-angelique-kerber","tag-eugenie-bouchard","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\/2887","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=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}