{"id":20925,"date":"2013-07-05T11:24:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T09:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/scheepers-impresses-at-wimbledon\/"},"modified":"2013-07-05T11:24:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T09:24:52","slug":"scheepers-impresses-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/scheepers-impresses-at-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheepers impresses at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=7742\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7742\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7742  \" alt=\"Chani Scheepers. Photo: Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0ab37_a3__2012919133520377u85.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chani Scheepers.<br \/>Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>South African tennis star Chani Scheepers is hoping to win through to the finals of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/things-you-should-know-about-wimbledon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon<\/a> women\u2019s doubles today.<\/p>\n<p>The South African number 1 continues to impress on the WTA doubles tour with Japanese partners.<\/p>\n<p>By reaching the semi-finals on Wednesday, Scheepers became the first South African woman to do so since Liezel Huber won the title with Cara Black of Zimbabwe in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, Mariaan de Swardt was the only other South African to reach the semi-finals, or better, of the doubles at the Championships since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999 de Swardt and partner Elena Tartakova of Ukraine lost in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The Championships, Wimbledon\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=51.4337444444,-0.214063888889spn=0.01,0.01q=51.4337444444,-0.214063888889 (The%20Championships%2C%20Wimbledon)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Wimbledon<\/a> final. De Swardt and Tartakova were beaten by top seeded American\u2019s Lindsay Davenport and Corina Morariu.<\/p>\n<p>Today in the semi-finals, Scheepers and Aoyama will have to pull out all the stops when they come up against 8 seeds Su-Wei Hsieh (Taipei) and Shuai Peng (China).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so exciting to be in the Wimbledon semi-finals! It still feels a bit like a dream right now. I only teamed up with Shuko at the last minute and we had a tough first round match so we really weren\u2019t expecting too much.<\/p>\n<p>But we just played our game and got through that match and just kept going each round\u201d said Scheepers.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0ab37_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chani Scheepers.Photo: Getty Images South African tennis star Chani Scheepers is hoping to win through to the finals of the Wimbledon women\u2019s doubles today. The South African number 1 continues to impress on the WTA doubles tour with Japanese partners. By reaching the semi-finals on Wednesday, Scheepers became the first South African woman to do [&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-20925","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\/20925","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=20925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}