{"id":4218,"date":"2013-09-09T00:28:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T00:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:03:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:03:55","slug":"serena-williams-wins-the-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/serena-williams-wins-the-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams Wins the US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams fought Victoria Azarenka, the wind, and her nerves to win her 17th Major title.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Serena Williams has won her fifth US Open crown with a hard fought victory over world No. 2 Victoria Azarenka, 7-5, 6-7(6), 6-1, in a match lasting 2 hours and 45 minutes. \u00a0Oddly, it was the first time that the world No. 1 and No. 2 had faced each other in a US Open final in 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t come easy. Serena had to overcome blustery weather conditions, unforced errors, and a very stubborn opponent in the Belorussian. Twice in the second set she served for the match but Azarenka broke her both times to force a deciding set.<\/p>\n<p>Azarenka had beaten Williams recently in Cincinnati in a three-set thriller but fell behind early in the final set and could not recover. Williams finally sealed the match when an Azarenka return sailed long.<\/p>\n<p>Williams increased her Grand Slam count to 17, one fewer than Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova on the all-time list, and jumped for joy on winning her fifth US Open title.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=1002\"><strong>Discuss the US Open Final on the Tennis Frontier Message Forums.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><em>Cover Photo: edplain (Creative Commons License)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams fought Victoria Azarenka, the wind, and her nerves to win her 17th Major title. [divider] Serena Williams has won her fifth US Open crown with a hard fought victory over world No. 2 Victoria Azarenka, 7-5, 6-7(6), 6-1, in a match lasting 2 hours and 45 minutes. \u00a0Oddly, it was the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[83,125,287,138,113],"class_list":["post-4218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-final","tag-serena-williams","tag-us-open","tag-victoria-azarenka","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218","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=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}