{"id":2890,"date":"2014-07-03T08:36:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T01:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2014-07-03T08:36:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T01:36:24","slug":"simona-halep-defeated-sabine-lisicki-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/simona-halep-defeated-sabine-lisicki-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Simona Halep defeated Sabine Lisicki &#8211; Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simona Halep took her place on Centre Court against Sabine Lisicki, and as she usually does, she made anyone who appreciates quality tennis sit up and pay attention. After being briefly overpowered by Lisicki and going down 1-4 in the first, Halep proceeded to play and run circles around the bamboozled and increasingly helpless German for the last 11 games. Halep&#8217;s 6-4, 6-0 win was nothing spectacular on the stat sheet\u2014she hit 16 winners and made 10 errors\u2014but it was comprehensive nonetheless&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tennis News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2014\/07\/wimbledon-halep-d-lisicki\/51977\/\" 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>Simona Halep took her place on Centre Court against Sabine Lisicki, and as she usually does, she made anyone who appreciates quality tennis sit up and pay attention. After being briefly overpowered by Lisicki and going down 1-4 in the first, Halep proceeded to play and run circles around the bamboozled and increasingly helpless German [&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":[1157,1153,408,114,120,80,188,1272,337,343],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-2014-wimbledon","tag-sabine-lisicki","tag-simona-halep","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\/2890","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=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}