{"id":17447,"date":"2013-01-20T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T10:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sharapova-not-in-the-mood-to-play-games\/"},"modified":"2013-01-20T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T10:18:11","slug":"sharapova-not-in-the-mood-to-play-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sharapova-not-in-the-mood-to-play-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharapova not in the mood to play games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Russian Maria Sharapova continued her dominating display at the Australian Open, advancing to the quarterfinals with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Kirsten Flipkens to set a tournament record for the fewest number of games lost through four rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Sharapova has lost only five games in four matches at Melbourne Park, including a pair of 6-0, 6-0 results \u2013 24 games in a row \u2013 ahead of her third-round win over Venus Williams in which she dropped four games.<\/p>\n<p>At the 1989 Australian Open, eventual champion Steffi Graf lost eight games en route to the quarterfinals, the previous best mark for fewest games lost through four rounds, a record later equaled by Monica Seles. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/huff-wires\/20130120\/ten-australian-open-sharapova\/?utm_hp_ref=mediair=media\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Russian Maria Sharapova continued her dominating display at the Australian Open, advancing to the quarterfinals with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Kirsten Flipkens to set a tournament record for the fewest number of games lost through four rounds. Sharapova has lost only five games in four matches at Melbourne Park, including a [&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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","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\/17447","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=17447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}