{"id":7782,"date":"2012-02-09T01:48:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T23:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/tennis-sharapova-breezes-into-paris-open-quarter-finals\/"},"modified":"2012-02-09T01:48:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T23:48:59","slug":"tennis-sharapova-breezes-into-paris-open-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/tennis-sharapova-breezes-into-paris-open-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Sharapova breezes into Paris Open quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">PARIS<\/span> Feb 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Top seed Maria Sharapova<br \/>\neased into the third round of the Paris Open with a 6-3 6-1<br \/>\ndismissal of South African Chenelle Scheepers on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The former world number one from Russia dropped serve twice<br \/>\nearly in the opening set but an upset was never on the cards at<br \/>\nthe Pierre de Coubertin hall.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After being held 3-3 in the first set, she won nine of the<br \/>\n10 remaining games, taking victory after 68 minutes when<br \/>\nScheepers netted a routine shot.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I struggled a little bit at the beginning because the<br \/>\nsurface is quicker than at the Australian Open or the Fed Cup,&#8221;<br \/>\nAustralian Open finalist Sharapova, who will next face either<br \/>\nRomanian Monica Niculescu or German ninth seed Angelique Kerber,<br \/>\ntold reporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Chrystel Boulet-Euchin; Writing by Julien Pretot;<br \/>\nEditing by Clare Fallon; To query or comment on this story email<br \/>\nsportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)<\/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>PARIS Feb 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Top seed Maria Sharapova eased into the third round of the Paris Open with a 6-3 6-1 dismissal of South African Chenelle Scheepers on Wednesday. The former world number one from Russia dropped serve twice early in the opening set but an upset was never on the cards at the [&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-7782","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\/7782","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=7782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}