{"id":7836,"date":"2014-08-04T02:21:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T02:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=7836"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:54:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:54:16","slug":"serena-regroups-and-wins-in-stanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/serena-regroups-and-wins-in-stanford\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Regroups and Wins in Stanford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/11003040665_6fc267478b_z-e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6186 alignnone\" alt=\"Serena Williams\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/11003040665_6fc267478b_z-e.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/11003040665_6fc267478b_z-e.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/11003040665_6fc267478b_z-e-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After some very mysterious behavior at Wimbledon, Serena Williams, determined to prove that was the result of just an anomalous illness, bypassed all critics and put in a dominating performance at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, CA, a tournament she has won three times. Today, she beat Angelique Kerber,\u00a0of Germany, 7-6 (1), 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who captured Stanford titles in 2011-12, improved her unbeaten run at the tournament to 13-0 three weeks before she is set to defend her title at the U.S. Open, which begins August 25.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was down 1-5 \u00a0in the first \u2013 saving two set points at 2-5 \u2013 before seizing control of the match and closing out Kerber in 1 hour and 19 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;Serena had the better answer at the end,&#8221; said third-seeded Kerber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): Francisco Carbajal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some very mysterious behavior at Wimbledon, Serena Williams, determined to prove that was the result of just an anomalous illness, bypassed all critics and put in a dominating performance at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, CA, a tournament she has won three times. Today, she beat Angelique Kerber,\u00a0of Germany, 7-6 (1), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[226,265,125,274],"class_list":["post-7836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-angelique-kerber","tag-bank-of-the-west-classic","tag-serena-williams","tag-stanford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836","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=7836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}