{"id":11314,"date":"2018-09-09T18:42:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T23:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=11314"},"modified":"2018-09-09T18:42:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T23:42:02","slug":"naomi-osaka-wins-maiden-major-at-the-us-open-amid-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/naomi-osaka-wins-maiden-major-at-the-us-open-amid-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka wins maiden major at the US Open amid controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>20th seed Naomi Osaka has secured the first grand slam title of her career at the US Open by defeating American Serena Williams at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>In a match clouded with controversy, Osaka prevailed 6-2 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, bidding for a 24th major title to tie the record of Margaret Court was defaulted a game late in the second set after calling umpire\u00a0Carlos Ramos a &#8220;thief&#8221; for calling a prior violation for coaching.\u00a0 The other violation came courtesy of a smashed racquet.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd appeared sympathetic to Williams and boos rang out until the ceremonies. Osaka was left in tears on the podium.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/osaka.png\" alt=\"naomi osaka\" width=\"590\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/osaka.png 590w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/osaka-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20th seed Naomi Osaka has secured the first grand slam title of her career at the US Open by defeating American Serena Williams at Flushing Meadows. In a match clouded with controversy, Osaka prevailed 6-2 6-4. Williams, bidding for a 24th major title to tie the record of Margaret Court was defaulted a game late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[814,287,113],"class_list":["post-11314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-naomi-osaka","tag-us-open","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314","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=11314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11316,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions\/11316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}