{"id":5252,"date":"2014-01-04T21:50:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T21:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=5252"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:57:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:57:47","slug":"ana-ivanovic-secures-wta-auckland-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/ana-ivanovic-secures-wta-auckland-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana Ivanovic Secures WTA Auckland Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5253\" alt=\"Ana Ivanovic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ana-ivanovic.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ana-ivanovic.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ana-ivanovic-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic continued with her excellent run of form by defeating Venus Williams\u00a06-2, 5-7, 6-4 in a titanic battle to seize the WTA Auckland crown in 2 hours, 19 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, also a former world No. 1, fought back strongly after Ivanovic had raced to an early lead by taking the opening stanza 6-2. The 33-year-old American won the second set to level proceedings having fought back from 3-5 down and facing a championship point. \u00a0She held serve and then broke the Serb twice to send the match into a deciding set.<\/p>\n<p>In the decider, Ivanovic broke Williams early and stayed in control, despite having to survive two break points when serving for the match.<\/p>\n<p>It was Ivanovic&#8217;s 12th title and first since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><em>Cover Photo: NAPARAZZI (Creative Commons License)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world No. 1 Ana Ivanovic continued with her excellent run of form by defeating Venus Williams\u00a06-2, 5-7, 6-4 in a titanic battle to seize the WTA Auckland crown in 2 hours, 19 minutes. Williams, also a former world No. 1, fought back strongly after Ivanovic had raced to an early lead by taking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[127,485,121,779,167,113],"class_list":["post-5252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-ana-ivanovic","tag-auckland","tag-new-zealand","tag-tennis","tag-venus-williams","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252","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=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}