{"id":5248,"date":"2014-01-04T21:19:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T21:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:57:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:57:47","slug":"serena-williams-bags-brisbane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/serena-williams-bags-brisbane\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams Bags Brisbane"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Serena<\/p>\n

Serena Williams secured her first title of 2014 defeating Victoria Azarenka in the final of the Brisbane International.<\/p>\n

Williams, the world No. 1, took the match 6-4, 7-5 in 98 minutes to send out a clear warning to her rivals in the build up to the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

She took the first set without facing a single break point and capitalized on an unforced error from Azarenka to break in the seventh game. \u00a0The Belarus World No. 2 was offered no opportunity to restore parity and could not get back into the set.<\/p>\n

Azarenka raised the stakes in the second set, twice breaking Williams and was in pole position to level things up after jumping out to a 4-2 lead before Williams broke back.<\/p>\n

At 5-5, the American broke again to edge out in front and then served out the match to take the title.<\/p>\n

The win extended a run of successive victories to 22 and Williams didn’t drop a set during the entire tournament.<\/p>\n

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Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): Francisco Carbajal<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Serena Williams secured her first title of 2014 defeating Victoria Azarenka in the final of the Brisbane International. Williams, the world No. 1, took the match 6-4, 7-5 in 98 minutes to send out a clear warning to her rivals in the build up to the Australian Open. She took the first set without facing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[484,125,779,138,113],"class_list":["post-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-brisbane-international","tag-serena-williams","tag-tennis","tag-victoria-azarenka","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","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=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}