{"id":7838,"date":"2014-08-04T03:40:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T03:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=7838"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:54:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:54:16","slug":"kuznetzova-returns-to-form-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/kuznetzova-returns-to-form-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuznetzova Returns to Form at Citi Open in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0903.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7854 alignnone\" alt=\"DSC_0903\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0903.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0903.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0903-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0903-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0903-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0903-500x334.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Svetlana Kuznetsova ended her four-year WTA title drought Sunday, beating Kurumi Nara of Japan 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the Citi Open in Washington, DC. \u00a0The Russian is a two-time Major champion.<\/p>\n<p>Nara is 22, and an excellent returner. She has one WTA title to her credit.<\/p>\n<p>Kuznetsova smiled when asked about the drought: &#8220;It feels like it&#8217;s been too long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: \u00a0Kiu (\u00a9 Tennis Frontier)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Svetlana Kuznetsova ended her four-year WTA title drought Sunday, beating Kurumi Nara of Japan 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the Citi Open in Washington, DC. \u00a0The Russian is a two-time Major champion. Nara is 22, and an excellent returner. She has one WTA title to her credit. Kuznetsova smiled when asked about the drought: &#8220;It feels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[289,550,200,296],"class_list":["post-7838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-citi-open","tag-kurumi-nara","tag-svetlana-kuznetsova","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838","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=7838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}