{"id":11100,"date":"2018-04-21T07:27:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T12:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=11100"},"modified":"2018-04-22T04:37:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T09:37:43","slug":"istanbul-cup-2018-wta-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/istanbul-cup-2018-wta-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul Cup 2018, WTA Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Caroline Wozniacki<\/strong> will be the marquee name heading up the field at the Istanbul Cup. \u00a0The Australian Open champ is the only Top 10 player heading to the Turkish tournament with most of her peers electing to play the Premier event in Stuttgart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the lack of other Top 10 entrants, the field is given a boost in name value by double major winner <strong>Svetlana Kuznetsova<\/strong>, <strong>Agnieszka Radwanska<\/strong> and the in-form <strong>Naomi Osaka<\/strong>. 2017 winner Elina Svitolina is not defending her title.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Caroline Wozniacki @ US Open by karlnorling\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/4966390970_6380d0c1a4_b_caroline-wozniacki.jpg\" alt=\"caroline wozniacki photo\" \/> <small>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/97788971@N00\/4966390970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">karlnorling<\/a> <a title=\"Attribution License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-inject\/images\/cc.png\" \/><\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$226,750 prize money is on offer for this WTA International event.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fact Flash<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Istanbul is the only city in the world that straddles two continents: Asia and Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/tennisforum\/threads\/istanbul-cup-2018.6002\">Discuss the tournament and more in the Tennis Frontier Forum.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline Wozniacki will be the marquee name heading up the field at the Istanbul Cup. \u00a0The Australian Open champ is the only Top 10 player heading to the Turkish tournament with most of her peers electing to play the Premier event in Stuttgart. Despite the lack of other Top 10 entrants, the field is given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[618,802,779,619,801,113],"class_list":["post-11100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wta-tennis","tag-istanbul-cup","tag-osaka","tag-tennis","tag-turkey","tag-wozniacki","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11100"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11216,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11100\/revisions\/11216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}