{"id":12269,"date":"2012-07-10T12:26:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T10:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/tennis-seeded-players-win-as-stanford-classic-awaits-serena\/"},"modified":"2012-07-10T12:26:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T10:26:24","slug":"tennis-seeded-players-win-as-stanford-classic-awaits-serena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/tennis-seeded-players-win-as-stanford-classic-awaits-serena\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Seeded players win as Stanford Classic awaits Serena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">July 9<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Belgium&#8217;s Yanina Wickmayer labored past<br \/>\nKai-Chen Chang 7-5 2-6 7-5 in the first round of the Stanford<br \/>\nClassic on Monday but all eyes will be on Wimbledon champion<br \/>\nSe r ena Williams who begins her title defense on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fifth seed Wickmayer, ranked 37 in the world, had to work<br \/>\nreally hard to remain on course for her first WTA title of the<br \/>\nyear. Her struggle was almost identical to her three-set defeat<br \/>\nagainst Tamira Paszek of Austria in the third round of Wimbledon<br \/>\nlast month.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South African Chanelle Scheepers joined her in the second<br \/>\nround after a 6-4 6-4 win over American Grace Min.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the sixth seed, it was her first victory since she was<br \/>\nbounced from the opening round of Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hardcourt tournament&#8217;s main attraction is Williams who<br \/>\nwon her 14th singles Grand Slam title in Wimbledon on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Williams will open against the winner of 19-year-old U.S.<br \/>\nplayer Nicole Gibbs and Thailand&#8217;s Noppawan Lertcheewakarn.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other opening-round winners at the Stanford Classic included<br \/>\nMichelle Larcher De Brito and Heather Watson.<\/p>\n<p> (Writing by Jahmal Corner in Los Angeles; editing by Amlan<br \/>\nChakraborty)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Belgium&#8217;s Yanina Wickmayer labored past Kai-Chen Chang 7-5 2-6 7-5 in the first round of the Stanford Classic on Monday but all eyes will be on Wimbledon champion Se r ena Williams who begins her title defense on Wednesday. Fifth seed Wickmayer, ranked 37 in the world, had to work really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}