{"id":8845,"date":"2012-03-13T03:07:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T01:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/tennis-schiavone-latest-victim-of-stomach-bug-at-indian-wells\/"},"modified":"2012-03-13T03:07:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T01:07:23","slug":"tennis-schiavone-latest-victim-of-stomach-bug-at-indian-wells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/tennis-schiavone-latest-victim-of-stomach-bug-at-indian-wells\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Schiavone latest victim of stomach bug at Indian Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">March 12<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Former French Open champion<br \/>\nFrancesca Schiavone became the latest victim of the widespread<br \/>\nviral infection at Indian Wells when she pulled out of her<br \/>\nthird-round match in the WTA tournament on Monday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 10th-seeded Schiavone, who won her only grand slam<br \/>\nsingles title at Roland Garros in 2010, withdrew because of a<br \/>\nstomach virus when trailing Czech Lucie Safarova 2-6.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Safarova will next face either Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli or<br \/>\nSouth African Chanelle Scheepers, who were playing later on<br \/>\nMonday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At least eight players competing at Indian Wells have<br \/>\nalready succumbed to the virus, which local health authorities<br \/>\nhave described as a 48-hour bug transmitted by air and direct<br \/>\ncontact and not via food.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Among the casualties were ninth-seeded Russian Vera<br \/>\nZvonareva, who pulled out before her third-round match on<br \/>\nSunday, and 14th-seeded Frenchman Gael Monfils, who exited the<br \/>\nATP tournament on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Monfils, who had been set to play his first match against<br \/>\nRussian Nikolay Davydenko in the second round, was replaced by<br \/>\nlucky loser Bjorn Phau of Germany.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes)<\/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>March 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone became the latest victim of the widespread viral infection at Indian Wells when she pulled out of her third-round match in the WTA tournament on Monday. The 10th-seeded Schiavone, who won her only grand slam singles title at Roland Garros in 2010, withdrew because of [&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-8845","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\/8845","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=8845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}