{"id":53513,"date":"2019-01-27T08:27:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T08:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=53513"},"modified":"2019-01-27T08:27:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T08:27:41","slug":"australian-open-petra-kvitova-to-take-on-osaka-for-grand-slam-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/australian-open-petra-kvitova-to-take-on-osaka-for-grand-slam-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open Petra Kvitova to take on Osaka for Grand Slam title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Australian Open Tennis, Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic will take on Naomi Osaka of Japan for the Women&#8217;s Singles Grand Slam title in Melbourne today.<\/p>\n<p>In the semi-finals on Thursday Osaka secured a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 win against Karolina Pliskova while Czech eighth seed Kvitova beat unseeded American Danielle Collins 7-6 (7-2), 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>For Osaka it&#8217;s a second grand slam final in a row after her victory against Serena Williams in the US in September, while Kvitova is aiming for a third grand slam title after wins at Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>In Women&#8217;s doubles, unseeded pairing of Samantha Stosur and Zhang Shuai won their first Grand Slam doubles title together, beating defending champions and No. 2-seeded Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic 6-3, 6-4 in the final on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>There will be clash of the titans in men&#8217;s singles, when world Number one Serbian Novak Djokovic takes on second seed Rafael Nadal of Spain in the final on Sunday.<\/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>In Australian Open Tennis, Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic will take on Naomi Osaka of Japan for the Women&#8217;s Singles Grand Slam title in Melbourne today. In the semi-finals on Thursday Osaka secured a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 win against Karolina Pliskova while Czech eighth seed Kvitova beat unseeded American Danielle Collins 7-6 (7-2), 6-0. For [&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":53514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53513","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\/53513","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=53513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53515,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53513\/revisions\/53515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}