{"id":707,"date":"2013-05-12T12:36:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T12:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=707"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:18:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:18:57","slug":"williams-wins-mutua-madrid-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/williams-wins-mutua-madrid-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams wins the Mutua Madrid Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams (No. 1) beat the Russian Maria Sharapova (No. 2) 6-1, 6-4 in the final of the Mutua Madrid Open, her 50th career title. It was their third meeting in 2013, with Williams winning all three, extending her lead in their head-to-head to 13-2.<\/p>\n<p>Williams broke Sharapova&#8217;s serve in the opening game, which set the tone for the next three games, with Williams going up 4-0 in under 20 minutes. Sharapova was finally able to hold in the fifth game, before Williams held, then broke Sharapova for a third time, winning the first set 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>The second set began with Sharapova breaking Williams&#8217; serve for the first time, then holding to go up 2-0. Williams was able to hold in the third game, and eventually broke back and held, bringing the score to 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>With Sharapova serving at 4-5, Williams was able to break serve, winning the championship in just under an hour and 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>By winning today, Williams retains her position atop the WTA rankings as the No. 1 women&#8217;s tennis player in the world, a spot she would have forfeited had the Russian prevailed.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tennis Discussions\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=176\"><strong>Click here to discuss this and more with fellow tennis fans on our discussion board.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams (No. 1) beat the Russian Maria Sharapova (No. 2) 6-1, 6-4 in the final of the Mutua Madrid Open, her 50th career title. It was their third meeting in 2013, with Williams winning all three, extending her lead in their head-to-head to 13-2. Williams broke Sharapova&#8217;s serve in the opening game, which set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[97,124,61,186,125,779,113],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-madrid","tag-madrid-open","tag-maria-sharapova","tag-mutua-madrid-open","tag-serena-williams","tag-tennis","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}