{"id":5688,"date":"2014-01-23T04:53:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T04:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:57:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:57:20","slug":"li-na-advances-to-the-australian-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/li-na-advances-to-the-australian-open-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Li Na Advances to the Australian Open Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5265\" alt=\"Li Na 2014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Li-Na-2014.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Li-Na-2014.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Li-Na-2014-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s Li Na reached the Ladies Australian Open final for the third time in four years with a 6-2, 6-4 win over young Canadian revelation Eugenie Bouchard.<\/p>\n<p>Li dominated the opening stanza, rushing out to a 5-0 lead in only 16 minutes before Bouchard finally registered a game on the scoreboard. She added another before Li closed out the set behind penetrating groundstrokes and strong serving.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian steadied her nerves in the second set and made a match of it before her experienced opponent broke and closed out the set with a crosscourt backhand.<\/p>\n<p>Li Na will meet the winner of Slovakia&#8217;s Dominika Cibulkova and Poland&#8217;s Agnieszka Radwanska who face off in the other semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><em>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): globalite<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Li Na reached the Ladies Australian Open final for the third time in four years with a 6-2, 6-4 win over young Canadian revelation Eugenie Bouchard. Li dominated the opening stanza, rushing out to a 5-0 lead in only 16 minutes before Bouchard finally registered a game on the scoreboard. She added another before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[426,505,82,113],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-australian-open","tag-eugenie-bouchard","tag-li-na","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","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=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}