{"id":964016,"date":"2024-07-02T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964016"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:19:14","slug":"defending-champ-vondrousova-out-in-first-round-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/defending-champ-vondrousova-out-in-first-round-at-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champ Vondrou\u0161ov\u00e1 out in first round at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defending women&#8217;s singles champion and world number six, Mark\u00e9ta Vondrou\u0161ov\u00e1 of the Czech Republic, has been knocked out in the first round of the Wimbledon Championships at the All-England Club in London.<\/p>\n<p>The twenty-one-year-old Spaniard, J\u00e9ssica Bouzas Maneiro, ranked 83rd in the world, defeated Vondrousova 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Vondrou\u0161ov\u00e1 is the first defending champion since Steffi Graf in 1994 to suffer a first round defeat.<\/p>\n<p>2022 Wimbledon Champion and fourth seed, Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, had no such problems.<\/p>\n<p>She recorded a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Romanian Elena-Gabriela Ruse, while fifth seeded American, Jessica Pegula, was equally impressive.<\/p>\n<p>She advanced to the second-round courtesy of a 6-2, 6-love victory over 20-year-old compatriot, Ashlyn Krueger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e9ssica Bouzas Maneiro, ranked 83rd in the world, defeated Vondrousova 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}