{"id":189495,"date":"2019-09-16T10:12:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/pliskova-overcomes-rain-and-martic-to-win-zhengzhou-open.html"},"modified":"2019-09-16T10:12:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:12:29","slug":"pliskova-overcomes-rain-and-martic-to-win-zhengzhou-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/tennis\/pliskova-overcomes-rain-and-martic-to-win-zhengzhou-open.html","title":{"rendered":"Pliskova overcomes sleet and Martic to win Zhengzhou Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLOSE<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">ZHENGZHOU, China (AP) \u2014 Top-seeded Karolina Pliskova overcame sleet delays and an early necessity to kick Petra Martic 6-3, 6-2 in a final of a Zhengzhou Open on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Rain halted play in a initial set after seventh-seeded Martic went 2-0 ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">When play resumed, Pliskova won a subsequent 3 games and pennyless Martic to lead 5-3 before portion out to win a initial set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Pliskova pennyless Martic in a second set to take a 2-1 lead and hold offer before play was dangling again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Pliskova once some-more came behind strongly after a delay, violation her competition again before winning in 1 hour, 36 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Pliskova had mislaid to Martic in 4 of their prior 5 encounters, including a 6-3, 6-3 detriment during a French Open third round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The final had been behind by scarcely 6 hours after torrential sleet all day.<\/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\">Pliskova clinched her fourth pretension of 2019, adding to wins in Brisbane, Rome and Eastbourne.<\/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 This element might not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.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\/~\/606822082\/0\/usatodaytennis-topstories~Pliskova-overcomes-rain-and-Martic-to-win-Zhengzhou-Open\/<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLOSE ZHENGZHOU, China (AP) \u2014 Top-seeded Karolina Pliskova overcame sleet delays and an early necessity to kick Petra Martic 6-3, 6-2 in a final of a Zhengzhou Open on Sunday. Rain halted play in a initial set after seventh-seeded Martic went 2-0 ahead. When play resumed, Pliskova won a subsequent 3 games and pennyless Martic [&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-189495","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\/189495","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=189495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}