{"id":58095,"date":"2012-10-28T13:37:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T11:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=58095"},"modified":"2014-01-07T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T19:18:06","slug":"sharapova-in-istanbul-final-after-beating-azarenka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/10\/28\/sharapova-in-istanbul-final-after-beating-azarenka\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharapova in Istanbul Final After Beating Azarenka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maria Sharapova upset world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka in straight sets on Saturday to book an encounter with Serena Williams in Sunday’s WTA Championships final.<\/p>\n

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Sharapova beat Azarenka 6-4, 6-2 after earning two early breaks in the first set and taking control in the second when Azarenka began to struggle with a problem affecting her right thigh.<\/p>\n

“When you’re playing the World No.1, you have to be ready for every shot – you have to run because the point can keep going and going,” Sharapova said on the WTA website.<\/p>\n

“I’d lost to Victoria the last few times, so I’m really happy I put myself in the semifinals to play against her and try to improve that – I was hoping to have a better result, and I’m really happy I did today.”<\/p>\n

The Belarusian leads Sharapova 7-5 in head-to-head meetings.<\/p>\n

Despite the defeat, the Belarusian will hold the world No. 1 spot at the end of the season after winning six titles including her first Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

via Sharapova in Istanbul Final After Beating Azarenka | Sports | RIA Novosti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maria Sharapova upset world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka in straight sets on Saturday to book an encounter with Serena Williams in Sunday’s WTA Championships final. Sharapova beat Azarenka 6-4, 6-2 after earning two early breaks in the first set and taking control in the second when Azarenka began to struggle with a problem affecting her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":58097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,3996],"tags":[8480,7272,5787,8479],"class_list":["post-58095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-sport","tag-maria-sharapova","tag-sharapova","tag-tennis","tag-victoria-azarenka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}