{"id":2760,"date":"2013-08-04T22:44:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T22:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:05:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:05:36","slug":"samantha-stosur-wins-the-southern-california-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/samantha-stosur-wins-the-southern-california-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Samantha Stosur Wins the Southern California Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha Stosur (5), of Australia, beat Victoria Azarenka (1) 6-2, 6-3 at the Southern California Open today, in Carlsbad.<\/p>\n<p>It was Stosur&#8217;s first win against Azarenka, and the Australian&#8217;s first title since winning the US Open in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>From the beginning, the match was all about Stosur, the last-minute wildcard entrant. She served well, won almost every point when she came to the net, and her groundstrokes were particularly effective.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=635\"><strong>Click here to discuss the Sam Stosur\/Victoria Azarenka final with fellow tennis fans in our discussion forum.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samantha Stosur (5), of Australia, beat Victoria Azarenka (1) 6-2, 6-3 at the Southern California Open today, in Carlsbad. It was Stosur&#8217;s first win against Azarenka, and the Australian&#8217;s first title since winning the US Open in 2011. From the beginning, the match was all about Stosur, the last-minute wildcard entrant. She served well, won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[294,190,293,138],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-carlsbad","tag-samantha-stosur","tag-southern-california-open","tag-victoria-azarenka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","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=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}