{"id":339,"date":"2013-04-26T09:17:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T09:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:20:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:20:03","slug":"sharapova-progresses-in-stuttgart-following-marathon-tussle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/sharapova-progresses-in-stuttgart-following-marathon-tussle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharapova progresses in Stuttgart following marathon tussle."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Number 2 and the top seed, Maria Sharapova prevailed in a marathon tussle lasting over three hours to progress to the Quarter Finals in defence of her Stuttgart title over clay court specialist Lucie Safarova.<\/p>\n<p>Sharapova won in three sets 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-3, squandering several match points en route to a hard fought victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I`ve had a few three-hour games in my career, so I knew I just had to keep fighting until the end. That`s when it`s the time to get the game-plan going and calm down a little bit.&#8221; said the Russian in the post match interview.<\/p>\n<p>Sharapova will now face Ana Ivanovic in the quarter finals on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Number 2 and the top seed, Maria Sharapova prevailed in a marathon tussle lasting over three hours to progress to the Quarter Finals in defence of her Stuttgart title over clay court specialist Lucie Safarova. Sharapova won in three sets 6-4, 6-7 (3), 6-3, squandering several match points en route to a hard fought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[61,62,779,113],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-maria-sharapova","tag-stuttgart","tag-tennis","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}