{"id":43045,"date":"2018-09-26T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=43045"},"modified":"2018-09-26T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T12:00:16","slug":"ailing-halep-crashes-out-wozniacki-in-rd-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ailing-halep-crashes-out-wozniacki-in-rd-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Ailing Halep crashes out, Wozniacki in Rd 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World No. 1 Simona Halep struggled to shake off the effects of a back injury before being beaten 6-0 7-5 by Slovak Dominika Cibulkova in the second round of the Wuhan Open on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Halep, who injured herself in training earlier this week, offered some resistance in the second set after a bad start to the match but could not prevent an early exit in her first tournament since the US Open. \u201cIt was tough to play in the beginning because my back was blocked. Normally, I\u2019d have to retire, but I didn\u2019t want to,\u201d Halep said.<br \/>\nUp next for Cibulkova is Russia\u2019s Daria Kasatkina who saved four match points before overcoming Chinese 17-year-old Wang Xiyu 6-1 3-6 7-6(8). Former world No. 1 Karolina Pliskova was not as lucky against another local hope in Wang Qiang, who clinched a 6-1 3-6 6-3 victory in two hours and eight minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Qualifier Katerina Siniakova, who was down a set and facing match point, produced a remarkable comeback to beat defending champion Caroline Garcia 3-6 7-6(5) 7-6(4).<br \/>\nReigning Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki admitted to not being at her best yet despite powering past Rebecca Peterson 6-4 6-1 in 88 minutes.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World No. 1 Simona Halep struggled to shake off the effects of a back injury before being beaten 6-0 7-5 by Slovak Dominika Cibulkova in the second round of the Wuhan Open on Tuesday. Halep, who injured herself in training earlier this week, offered some resistance in the second set after a bad start to [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43047,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43045\/revisions\/43047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}