{"id":189492,"date":"2019-09-15T18:12:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/pliskova-takes-on-martic-at-zhengzhou-open-final.html"},"modified":"2019-09-15T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:12:09","slug":"pliskova-takes-on-martic-at-zhengzhou-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/tennis\/pliskova-takes-on-martic-at-zhengzhou-open-final.html","title":{"rendered":"Pliskova takes on Martic during Zhengzhou Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLOSE<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">ZHENGZHOU, China (AP) \u2014 Top-seeded Karolina Pliskova modernized to a Zhengzhou Open final with a clinical 6-3, 6-2 feat over Ajla Tomljanovic on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Pliskova clinched her third true win opposite Tomljanovic this season, holding 93% of her initial use points to strech her fifth final of a year. She had 6 aces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Pliskova&#8217;s competition in a final is seventh-seeded Petra Martic, who degraded Kristina Mladenovic 6-0, 6-3 in a other semifinal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Martic won her initial pretension this year \u2014 in Istanbul \u2014 before she reached a Grand Slam quarterfinal for a initial time during Roland Garros and done a Top 20 rankings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The 28-year-old Martic pennyless 3 times in a 21-minute opening set and hermetic feat with her third ace.<\/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 This element might not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.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\/~\/606811124\/0\/usatodaytennis-topstories~Pliskova-takes-on-Martic-at-Zhengzhou-Open-final\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLOSE ZHENGZHOU, China (AP) \u2014 Top-seeded Karolina Pliskova modernized to a Zhengzhou Open final with a clinical 6-3, 6-2 feat over Ajla Tomljanovic on Saturday. Pliskova clinched her third true win opposite Tomljanovic this season, holding 93% of her initial use points to strech her fifth final of a year. She had 6 aces. Pliskova&#8217;s [&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-189492","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\/189492","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=189492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}