{"id":5935,"date":"2014-02-17T02:01:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T02:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=5935"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:56:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:56:28","slug":"halep-takes-doha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/halep-takes-doha\/","title":{"rendered":"Halep Takes Doha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9633218632_7776e2f605_z-e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5927 alignnone\" alt=\"Simona Halep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9633218632_7776e2f605_z-e.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9633218632_7776e2f605_z-e.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9633218632_7776e2f605_z-e-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simona Halep, the 22-year-old Romanian who made a splash last year by winning six titles on the WTA Tour, has won her biggest one yet at the Qatar Open, beating Germany&#8217;s Angelique Kerber in the final, 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Halep beat 3 Top 10 players on her way to the trophy, including Kerber (No. 9), having already dispatched Sara Errani (No. 7), and\u00a0Agnieszka Radwanska (No. 4.)<\/p>\n<p>Despite four break point opportunities, Kerber was unable to break Halep in the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s tough to play against a player like Simona,&#8221; Kerber said. &#8220;I was trying to play my game plan, but it was not easy &#8230; she hit the balls very well and on the line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to be focused for every point, to fight for every point,&#8221; Halep said. \u00a0She will rise to a career-high No. 9 when the rankings come out on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): robbiesaurus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simona Halep, the 22-year-old Romanian who made a splash last year by winning six titles on the WTA Tour, has won her biggest one yet at the Qatar Open, beating Germany&#8217;s Angelique Kerber in the final, 6-2, 6-3. For the first time, Halep beat 3 Top 10 players on her way to the trophy, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[226,487,535,137,113],"class_list":["post-5935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-angelique-kerber","tag-doha","tag-qatar-open","tag-simona-halep","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}