{"id":17614,"date":"2016-09-24T15:12:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T15:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=17614"},"modified":"2016-09-24T15:12:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T15:12:03","slug":"sania-wins-pan-pacific-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/sania-wins-pan-pacific-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Sania wins Pan Pacific Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s ace tennis star who is also the brand ambassador of Telangana state, Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Barbora Strycova thrashed China&#8217;s Chen Liang and Zhaoxuan Yang in straight sets to claim the Pan Pacific Open women&#8217;s doubles title in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>The No.2 seeds needed just 52 minutes to triumph 6-1, 6-1 to secure their second title together following their Cincinnati Open win.<\/p>\n<p>Sania Mirza and Strycova overcame their US Open quarter-final exit and looked completely at ease during the final on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17616\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/sania-mirza-barbora-strycova.jpg\" alt=\"sania-mirza-barbora-strycova\" width=\"764\" height=\"573\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is Sania&#8217;s third Pan Pacific Open title in four years. Having won the tournament in 2013 and 2014 with Cara Black. The 29-year-old had given the tournament in Tokyo a miss last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Indo-Czech pair took just 26 minutes to clinch the first set 6-1. They sped to a 5-0 lead and never looked back.<\/p>\n<p>The second set started in a more even note with the scores tied 1-1 with the second seeds&#8217; serve coming under a little pressure.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sania and Barbora took the next five games to take the set 6-1 to romp to the title in Tokyo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s ace tennis star who is also the brand ambassador of Telangana state, Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Barbora Strycova thrashed China&#8217;s Chen Liang and Zhaoxuan Yang in straight sets to claim the Pan Pacific Open women&#8217;s doubles title in Tokyo. The No.2 seeds needed just 52 minutes to triumph 6-1, 6-1 to secure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6541,510,6539,1200,6538,6540],"class_list":["post-17614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-top-stories","tag-great-telangana","tag-india","tag-pan-pacific-open-womens-doubles-title","tag-sania-mirza","tag-tennis-star","tag-tokyo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}