{"id":8221,"date":"2014-08-17T23:14:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T23:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=8221"},"modified":"2015-09-20T01:53:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T05:53:48","slug":"serena-williams-wins-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/serena-williams-wins-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams Wins Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/10294784033_88f6bd7fc2_z-e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8202 alignnone\" alt=\"Serena Williams\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/10294784033_88f6bd7fc2_z-e.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/10294784033_88f6bd7fc2_z-e.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/10294784033_88f6bd7fc2_z-e-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/10294784033_88f6bd7fc2_z-e-150x80.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/10294784033_88f6bd7fc2_z-e-500x266.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Serena Williams won her first ever title in at the Western and Southern Open, beating Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 6-1. \u00a0The Serb made a strong start, breaking Williams in the first game of the match and seemed committed to being aggressive on the intimidating Williams serve, often standing inside the baseline. \u00a0But Serena found her serve, breaking back in the sixth game for 3-3. \u00a0After that, Ivanovic appeared to be feeling the effects of a long and emotional match win last night over Maria Sharapova. \u00a0And Williams began to play her best tennis of this North American hard court swing, the lead-up to the US Open, which begins in 8 days.<\/p>\n<p>Ivanovic, having the winningest season of any woman on tour, will be back in the top 10 when the rankings come out tomorrow. \u00a0Serena, one month shy of her 33rd birthday, goes into the next Slam as the heavy favorite. \u00a0She is looking for her 18th Major title, which would tie her with Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. \u00a0And having won the US Open tune-up season, she would also collect a bonus, should she win the title in New York\u2026a payday of $4 million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Cover Photo (Creative Commons License): Marianne Bevis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams won her first ever title in at the Western and Southern Open, beating Ana Ivanovic 6-4, 6-1. \u00a0The Serb made a strong start, breaking Williams in the first game of the match and seemed committed to being aggressive on the intimidating Williams serve, often standing inside the baseline. \u00a0But Serena found her serve, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[127,305,125,306],"class_list":["post-8221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-ana-ivanovic","tag-cincinnati","tag-serena-williams","tag-western-southern-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221","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=8221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}