{"id":11239,"date":"2018-04-30T07:13:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T12:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=11239"},"modified":"2018-04-30T07:29:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T12:29:41","slug":"grand-prix-der-sar-la-princesse-lalla-meryem-tennis-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/grand-prix-der-sar-la-princesse-lalla-meryem-tennis-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Prix Der Sar La Princesse Lalla Meryem – Tennis Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Serena Williams spoke in a recent interview with BBC Sports of bringing a WTA event to Africa. <\/span>
\n<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201c<\/span>I think it would be amazing. It would be so fun \u2013 the help that we could do, and the awareness and the athletes and the amazing players that would come out of Africa would just be unbelievable.<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Serena might have overlooked the <\/span>Grand Prix Der Sar La Princesse Lalla Meryem<\/b>, a WTA International event hosted in Morocco since 2007\u2026 or more likely she is considering an event on a larger scale.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, the Morocco Grand Prix has been flying the flag for the WTA in Africa since 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Grand<\/p>\n

Hosted at the Club des Cheminots in Rabat, the tournament offers a $250,000 prize pool and while it might not attract the global superstars of women\u2019s tennis, it does attract some well-known faces from the tour. Elise Mertens (1) and Dominika Cibulkova (2) head the field this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seeds:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1 Elise Mertens
\n2 Dominika Cibulkova
\n3 Petra Martic
\n4 Timea Babos
\n5 Timea Bacsinszky
\n6 Zarina Dyas
\n7 Aleksandra Krunic
\n8 Su-Wei Hsieh<\/p>\n

\"Elise<\/p>\n

Strange, but true…<\/h3>\n

For a period of the 17th century, Rabat was run by pirates under the Republic of Bou Regreg. These Barbary pirates used the city (along with its neighbor Sal\u00e9) as a base for their attacks on ships in the area.<\/p>\n

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Click here to Check out the Draw and Discuss the tournament in the Tennis Frontier Forum<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Serena Williams spoke in a recent interview with BBC Sports of bringing a WTA event to Africa. \u201cI think it would be amazing. It would be so fun \u2013 the help that we could do, and the awareness and the athletes and the amazing players that would come out of Africa would just be unbelievable.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[807,805,806,779,113],"class_list":["post-11239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wta-tennis","tag-grand-prix-der-sar-la-princesse-lalla-meryem","tag-morocco","tag-rabat","tag-tennis","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239","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=11239"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11245,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239\/revisions\/11245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}