{"id":25374,"date":"2013-02-03T15:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T14:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rt.com\/sport\/tennis\/kirilenko-wins-first-wta-347\/"},"modified":"2013-02-03T15:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T14:29:55","slug":"kirilenko-wins-first-wta-singles-title-since-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/kirilenko-wins-first-wta-singles-title-since-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirilenko wins first WTA singles title since 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/sport\/tennis\/kirilenko-wins-first-wta-347\/kirilenko-russian-tennis-player.n.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" alt=\"Russian tennis player Maria Kirilenko (RIA Novosti \/ Anton Denisov)\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"VideoDescription\" class=\"grey mv10\">Russian tennis player Maria Kirilenko (RIA Novosti \/ Anton Denisov)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Second-seed Maria Kirilenko has edged out Sabine Liciski of Germany in the final match of the Pattaya Open, ending her WTA drought that lasted for more than four years.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian, who lost last year\u2019s final in Thailand to Daniela Hantuchova, took out all the stops this year against Sabine Liciski.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth-seed German broke the Russian late in the first set, 7-5, only to let Kirilenko blitz in the second, 6-1. The final set was decided by a tiebreaker in which Kirilenko didn\u2019t leave her opponent a single chance, 7-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian has consequently increased her perfect record against Liciski to three wins, and claimed her first singles WTA title since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Pattaya tournament is played on hard courts and has a $235,000 prize fund.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/files\/sport\/tennis\/kirilenko-wins-first-wta-347\/kirilenko-russian-tennis-player.n.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" alt=\"Russian tennis player Maria Kirilenko (RIA Novosti \/ Anton Denisov)\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Russian tennis player Maria Kirilenko (RIA Novosti \/ Anton Denisov)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Second-seed Maria Kirilenko has edged out Sabine Liciski of Germany in the final match of the Pattaya Open, ending her WTA drought that lasted for more than four years.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian, who lost last year&rsquo;s final in Thailand to Daniela Hantuchova, took out all the stops this year against Sabine Liciski.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth-seed German broke the Russian late in the first set, 7-5, only to let Kirilenko blitz in the second, 6-1. The final set was decided by a tiebreaker in which Kirilenko didn&rsquo;t leave her opponent a single chance, 7-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian has consequently increased her perfect record against Liciski to three wins, and claimed her first singles WTA title since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Pattaya tournament is played on hard courts and has a $235,000 prize fund.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}