{"id":21839,"date":"2013-08-12T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T11:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/williams-cruises-to-victory-in-rogers-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2013-08-12T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T11:15:09","slug":"williams-cruises-to-victory-in-rogers-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/williams-cruises-to-victory-in-rogers-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams cruises to victory in Rogers Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=13205\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13205\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13205 \" alt=\"Serena Williams serves to Sorana Cirstea in the quick-fire final in Toronto. Photo: AP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/cb7ec_462093-130812-serena-williams-600x337.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serena Williams serves to Sorana Cirstea in the quick-fire final in Toronto. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p>Serena Williams cruised to victory on Sunday in the Rogers Cup final over Sorana Cirstea to claim her third career Rogers Cup title.<\/p>\n<p>Williams won in two sets, 6-2, 6-0 in a match that lasted only 65 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>With three career Rogers Cup titles, Williams sits alone in second behind Monica Seles and Chris Evert, who both has four Rogers Cup titles in the Modern Era. Her previous victories were in 2011 and 2001.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, this is a big tournament. This is one of the big stops of the year,\u201d said Williams after the match.<\/p>\n<p>The victory was also <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/sharapova-takes-on-williams-at-french-open-final\/\" target=\"_blank\">William\u2019s 54th career WTA title and eighth title of the year<\/a>, matching her personal best of eight wins in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like I have played a lot of tennis this year, although I don\u2019t think I have overdone it,\u201d said Williams. \u201cI feel like I have played key tournaments, played well in those tournaments, and just keep going.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">English.news.cn<\/a><\/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\/f586d_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams serves to Sorana Cirstea in the quick-fire final in Toronto. Photo: AP Serena Williams cruised to victory on Sunday in the Rogers Cup final over Sorana Cirstea to claim her third career Rogers Cup title. Williams won in two sets, 6-2, 6-0 in a match that lasted only 65 minutes. With three career [&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-21839","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\/21839","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=21839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}