{"id":498951,"date":"2023-01-12T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T05:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=498951"},"modified":"2023-01-12T06:13:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T06:13:48","slug":"tennis-stellar-swiatek-poised-for-more-hard-court-success-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/tennis-stellar-swiatek-poised-for-more-hard-court-success-in-melbourne","title":{"rendered":"Tennis-Stellar Swiatek poised for more hard court success in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 12 (Reuters) &#8211; The Australian Open women&#8217;s tournament has thrown up plenty of surprises over the years but it is hard to see anyone other than Poland&#8217;s imperious Iga Swiatek lifting the trophy after an outstanding 2022 season. Still only 21, Swiatek has quickly established herself as the player no one else wants to face. She led the WTA Tour with 67 match wins and eight titles, including two Grand Slams, and strung together a 37-match winning run from February to July. Swiatek ascended to the top of the rankings in April and has remained at the summit ever since, and showed in September that she can also succeed on hard courts when she added a first U.S. Open title to her two French Open crowns. The Pole has not looked quite as dominant so far this year, however, and left the court in tears last week after a shock defeat by Jessica Pegula in the United Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 12 (Reuters) &#8211; The Australian Open women&#8217;s tournament has thrown up plenty of surprises over the years but it is hard to see anyone other than Poland&#8217;s imperious Iga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}