{"id":1623,"date":"2013-06-03T10:40:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T10:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:10:00","slug":"victoria-azarenka-advances-to-the-french-open-womens-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/victoria-azarenka-advances-to-the-french-open-womens-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharapova, Azarenka, Jankovic, Kirilenko Advance to the French Open Women&#8217;s Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Azarenka, the No. 3 seed from Belarus, made quick work of the Italian former Roland Garros Champion,\u00a0Francesca Schiavone, easily beating her 6-3, 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Maria Kirilenko (12) beat the veteran\u00a0Bethanie Mattek-Sands, of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Sharapova, the No. 2 seed and defending champion, dispatched Sloane Stephens, the No. 17 seed, 6-4, 6-3. Stephens was one of three women from the United States to\u00a0make it to the Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Jelena Jankovic, of Serbia, the No. 18 seed, beat Jamie Hampton, 6-0, 6-2, securing the final spot in the women&#8217;s quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"tennis discussion\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=334\"><strong>Click here to discuss the Azarenka\/Kirilenko quarterfinal<\/strong><strong>, and more with fellow tennis fans on our discussion boards.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"tennis discussion\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=336\"><strong>Click here to discuss the Sharapova\/Jankovic quarterfinal<\/strong><strong>, and more with fellow tennis fans on our discussion boards.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Azarenka, the No. 3 seed from Belarus, made quick work of the Italian former Roland Garros Champion,\u00a0Francesca Schiavone, easily beating her 6-3, 6-0. The Russian Maria Kirilenko (12) beat the veteran\u00a0Bethanie Mattek-Sands, of the United States. Maria Sharapova, the No. 2 seed and defending champion, dispatched Sloane Stephens, the No. 17 seed, 6-4, 6-3. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[142,204,203,61,140,138],"class_list":["post-1623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-french-open","tag-jelena-jankovic","tag-maria-kirilenko","tag-maria-sharapova","tag-roland-garros","tag-victoria-azarenka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}