{"id":8875,"date":"2012-03-13T15:09:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T13:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-3-tennis-stosur-exits-sharapova-and-wozniacki-advance\/"},"modified":"2012-03-13T15:09:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T13:09:36","slug":"update-3-tennis-stosur-exits-sharapova-and-wozniacki-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-tennis-stosur-exits-sharapova-and-wozniacki-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Tennis-Stosur exits, Sharapova and Wozniacki advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Petrova avenges U.S. Open loss to Stosur<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Sharapova needs five match points to secure victory<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Wozniacki continues defence of title<\/p>\n<p> (updates with Wozniacki win, third para)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mark Lamport-Stokes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>INDIAN WELLS, California, March 12 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S.<br \/>\nOpen champion Sam Stosur made a premature exit at the Indian<br \/>\nWells WTA tournament on Monday while Maria Sharapova and<br \/>\ndefending champion Caroline Wozniacki both advanced.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sixth-seeded Stosur lost a see-sawing third round encounter<br \/>\nwith Russian Nadia Petrova 6-1 6-7 7-6 at the Indian Wells<br \/>\nTennis Garden, before Sharapova finally wrapped up a 6-3 6-4 win<br \/>\nagainst Romania&#8217;s Simona Halep on the fifth match point.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the final match of the day, Denmark&#8217;s Wozniacki recovered<br \/>\nfrom a shaky opening set to battle past Swede Sofia Arvidsson<br \/>\n3-6 7-5 6-2 after a fluctuating tussle lasting two hours and 37<br \/>\nminutes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Australian Stosur was broken by Petrova when serving for the<br \/>\nmatch at 6-5 in the third set and the Russian capitalised by<br \/>\nholding her serve and sealing a victory 7-5 in the tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Stosur had been swept aside by her big-serving opponent in<br \/>\nthe opening set and then saved one match point in the second set<br \/>\ntiebreak before clawing her way back to level the match.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Petrova avenges U.S. Open loss to Stosur * Sharapova needs five match points to secure victory * Wozniacki continues defence of title (updates with Wozniacki win, third para) By Mark Lamport-Stokes INDIAN WELLS, California, March 12 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Open champion Sam Stosur made a premature exit at the Indian Wells WTA tournament on [&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-8875","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\/8875","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=8875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}