{"id":4755,"date":"2013-10-26T16:26:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T16:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=4755"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:58:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:58:49","slug":"serena-williams-and-li-na-advance-to-wta-championship-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/serena-williams-and-li-na-advance-to-wta-championship-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams and Li Na Advance to WTA Championship Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/WTA-Final-Li-Na-Serena.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4754 alignnone\" alt=\"WTA Final - Li Na Serena\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/WTA-Final-Li-Na-Serena.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/WTA-Final-Li-Na-Serena.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/WTA-Final-Li-Na-Serena-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Serena Williams and Li Na have advanced to the final of the WTA Championship in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Li Na beat Petra Kvitova 6-4, 6-2 in just over an hour and a half.<\/p>\n<p>Serena Williams won the first set against Jelena Jankovic 6-4, then played a distracted second set, getting broken twice, to lose it 2-6. In the third set, Williams was up a double break, and served for the match at 5-2, when Jankovic broke back, saving a match point, then proceeded to win the next two games. Williams finally closed out the match after serving for it a second time, closing it out 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Williams and Li Na will play the WTA Championship final on Sunday. It will begin not before 10 P.M. EDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams and Li Na have advanced to the final of the WTA Championship in Istanbul, Turkey. Li Na beat Petra Kvitova 6-4, 6-2 in just over an hour and a half. Serena Williams won the first set against Jelena Jankovic 6-4, then played a distracted second set, getting broken twice, to lose it 2-6. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[443,204,82,231,125,444],"class_list":["post-4755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-istanbul","tag-jelena-jankovic","tag-li-na","tag-petra-kvitova","tag-serena-williams","tag-wta-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755","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=4755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}