{"id":4452,"date":"2013-09-29T23:31:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T23:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=4452"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:03:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:03:30","slug":"petra-kvitova-wins-the-pan-pacific-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/petra-kvitova-wins-the-pan-pacific-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Petra Kvitova Wins the Pan Pacific Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Czech star Petra Kvitova defeated Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-2, 0-6, 6-3 to secure the Pan Pacific Open title in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The former Wimbledon champion earned it the hard way. It was a roller-coaster ride of a match that featured several momentum swings before Kvitova sealed the contest with a rapier-like crosscourt forehand winner.<\/p>\n<p>Kvitova dropped six straight games en route to a second set bagel before recovering her poise and going on to win the deciding set.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Angie came back at me but I tried to stay focused and it&#8217;s amazing to win such a big tournament,&#8221; stated the champion after the match.<\/p>\n<p>It was Kvitova&#8217;s first title success since Dubai in February.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=1140\"><strong>Discuss the\u00a0Pan Pacific Open on the Tennis Frontier message boards.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><em>Cover Photo:\u00a0Piotr Drabik\u00a0(Creative Commons License)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czech star Petra Kvitova defeated Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-2, 0-6, 6-3 to secure the Pan Pacific Open title in Japan. The former Wimbledon champion earned it the hard way. It was a roller-coaster ride of a match that featured several momentum swings before Kvitova sealed the contest with a rapier-like crosscourt forehand winner. Kvitova [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[226,378,231,779,113],"class_list":["post-4452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-angelique-kerber","tag-pan-pacific-open","tag-petra-kvitova","tag-tennis","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452","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=4452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}