{"id":6009,"date":"2014-03-02T05:04:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T05:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=6009"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:56:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:56:27","slug":"cibulkova-overcomes-mchale-in-acapulco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/cibulkova-overcomes-mchale-in-acapulco\/","title":{"rendered":"Cibulkova Overcomes McHale in Acapulco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6705940085_11f4a6dc41_z-e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6003 alignnone\" alt=\"Dominika Cibulkova\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6705940085_11f4a6dc41_z-e.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6705940085_11f4a6dc41_z-e.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6705940085_11f4a6dc41_z-e-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Top-seeded Dominika Cibulkova won the Abierto Telcel Mexicano over Christina McHale of the US, 7-6, 4-6, 6-4. This was Cibulkova&#8217;s fourth career title. \u00a0She was the runner-up in this year&#8217;s Australian Open to eventual winner, Li Na.<\/p>\n<p>Her opponent, Christina McHale, was the surprise finalist. The #70 ranked 21-year-old American made a strong showing in her first WTA final. She has a career-high ranking of 24, and will surely see her ranking go up after this tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Acapulco, a combined women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s event, saw a surface change this year. After 20 years as a clay court tournament, it was contested for the first time this year on hard courts. This makes it a good tune-up event to Indian Wells, also a co-ed event, and one of the premier events on both tours. The surface change for Acapulco has been seen as a boon for the event.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>In other WTA news,\u00a0Klara Zakopalova of the Czech Republic won her third WTA singles title by defeating Garbine Muguruza of Spain 4-6, 7-5, 6-0 in the Brazil Cup final on Saturday. The Spaniard was leading 6-4, 5-2 and serving for the match when her game fell apart. The 32-year-old Zakopalova\u00a0won 11 straight games to close out the match.<\/p>\n<p>Zakopalova was playing in her third final this year, with only her first win since 2005.<br \/>\n[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): NAPARAZZI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-seeded Dominika Cibulkova won the Abierto Telcel Mexicano over Christina McHale of the US, 7-6, 4-6, 6-4. This was Cibulkova&#8217;s fourth career title. \u00a0She was the runner-up in this year&#8217;s Australian Open to eventual winner, Li Na. Her opponent, Christina McHale, was the surprise finalist. The #70 ranked 21-year-old American made a strong showing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[553,555,552,282,554,549],"class_list":["post-6009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-acapulco","tag-brazil-cup","tag-christina-mchale","tag-dominika-cibulkova","tag-garbine-muguruza","tag-klara-zakopalova"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009","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=6009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}