{"id":3332,"date":"2013-08-19T01:21:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T01:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:04:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:04:47","slug":"azarenka-upsets-serena-in-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/azarenka-upsets-serena-in-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"Azarenka Upsets Serena in Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Azarenka won the Western &amp; Southern Open in Cincinnati, beating Serena Williams 2-6, 6-2, 7-6(6).<\/p>\n<p>Williams went up a double break in the first set, before serving it out at love. Azarenka held to open the second set, then finally broke the American&#8217;s serve after a long second game.<\/p>\n<p>And then came the sixth game of the second set. Serving at 1-4, after nearly 20 minutes, and 13 deuces, Serena held serve to take it to 2-4. In the next game Azarenka held serve, after going down 0-40, then broke Serena to tale the set 2-6.<\/p>\n<p>The players exchanged breaks in the third set, before taking it to an appropriate third set tiebreak. Azarenka finally won after Serena netted a forehand.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=842\"><strong>Click here to discuss the Serena Williams\/Azarenka final in our discussion forum.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Azarenka won the Western &amp; Southern Open in Cincinnati, beating Serena Williams 2-6, 6-2, 7-6(6). Williams went up a double break in the first set, before serving it out at love. Azarenka held to open the second set, then finally broke the American&#8217;s serve after a long second game. And then came the sixth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[305,125,138,306],"class_list":["post-3332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-cincinnati","tag-serena-williams","tag-victoria-azarenka","tag-western-southern-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332","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=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}