{"id":65961,"date":"2019-07-14T09:20:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T09:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=65961"},"modified":"2019-07-14T09:20:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T09:20:41","slug":"simona-halep-stuns-williams-to-win-wimbledon-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/simona-halep-stuns-williams-to-win-wimbledon-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Simona Halep stuns Williams to win Wimbledon title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Simona Halep won her first Wimbledon title after she eased past Serena Williams 6-2 6-2 on centre court on Saturday. The Romania tennis star eased past the American in 55 minutes to deny Williams a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was Halep&#8217;s second ever Grand Slam title having only previously won the French Open back in 2018. Williams was looking to equal Margaret Court but she was never allowed a foothold in this final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Halep appeared relaxed and ready before this final as she stood smiling outside of the locker room. With a double break, she led 4-0 inside 11 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Romanian could not be stopped in the first set. She took it 6-2 in 26 minutes. It was at the 2005 Australian Open the last time Williams came from behind to win a Grand Slam final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Halep withstood the barrage at the start of the second set then broke Williams when the American fired the simplest of forehands at the net long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Halep made it a double, leaving her to serve out the set. In fitting with the theme of the match, she made no mistakes.<br>\nHalep was the Wimbledon champion, and Williams will remain on 23 Grand Slams.<\/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>Simona Halep won her first Wimbledon title after she eased past Serena Williams 6-2 6-2 on centre court on Saturday. The Romania tennis star eased past the American in 55 minutes to deny Williams a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam. This was Halep&#8217;s second ever Grand Slam title having only previously won the French Open back [&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":65962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65961","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\/65961","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=65961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65963,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65961\/revisions\/65963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}