{"id":189487,"date":"2019-09-14T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T18:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/doi-hibino-set-up-rare-all-japanese-wta-final.html"},"modified":"2019-09-14T18:11:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T18:11:42","slug":"doi-hibino-set-up-rare-all-japanese-wta-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/tennis\/doi-hibino-set-up-rare-all-japanese-wta-final.html","title":{"rendered":"Doi, Hibino set adult singular all-Japanese WTA final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLOSE<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) \u2014 Misaki Doi dissapoint second-seeded Veronika Kudermetova 6-4, 6-3 Saturday to set adult a singular all-Japanese final during a Japan Women&#8217;s Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Nao Hibino changed into her fifth career WTA singles final after rallying to kick Mihaela Buzarnescu 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 in a other semifinal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">It&#8217;s a initial all-Japanese singles final on a WTA debate given 1997, when Naoko Sawamatsu degraded Yuka Yoshida in Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Both Doi and Hibino are seeking their second WTA singles titles \u2014 Doi won during Luxembourg in Oct 2015, and Hibino won in Tashkent a same month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Doi and Hibino are now even in their head-to-head record with dual wins apiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The dual Japanese players have also teamed adult to strech a doubles final during a Japan Women&#8217;s Open, and will play Christina McHale and Valeria Savinykh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text p-text-last\" id=\"article-body-p-last\">More AP Tennis: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/apf-Tennis and https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Sports<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This element might not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~\/606784708\/0\/usatodaytennis-topstories~Doi-Hibino-set-up-rare-allJapanese-WTA-final\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLOSE HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) \u2014 Misaki Doi dissapoint second-seeded Veronika Kudermetova 6-4, 6-3 Saturday to set adult a singular all-Japanese final during a Japan Women&#8217;s Open. Nao Hibino changed into her fifth career WTA singles final after rallying to kick Mihaela Buzarnescu 4-6, 6-0, 6-3 in a other semifinal. It&#8217;s a initial all-Japanese singles final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-189487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}