{"id":5329,"date":"2013-01-10T22:09:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T12:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2013-01-10T22:09:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T12:39:53","slug":"2013-world-tennis-challenge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2013\/01\/10\/2013-world-tennis-challenge-2","title":{"rendered":"2013 World Tennis Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain\u2019s <strong>Nicolas Almagro<\/strong> world number 11, was first up on court one facing <strong>Stan Wawrinka <\/strong>[17].<\/p>\n<p>Wawrinka failed to dent the Spaniard who won the pro set 8-5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viktor Troicki<\/strong> [38] took on the wildly unpredictable <strong>Alexandr Dolgopolov<\/strong> [20] in the evening\u2019s other opener and served superbly to come through 8-5.<\/p>\n<p>The battle of the Swedish Legends followed, <strong>Mats Wilander<\/strong> and <strong>Mikael Pernfors<\/strong>, just one year apart in age but who curiously had only played each other three times professionally, Wilander the winner on two previous occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Pernfors though rose to the occasion for his first win of the week, by 8-4, with Wilander calling for the physio on court for a back problem late on in the set.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Henri Leconte<\/strong> was unable to stand firm against the mighty serving of local favourite <strong>Wayne Arthurs<\/strong>, a first meeting between the two grandees. The game was all square until 4-4 when Arthurs upped his pace to take the set 8-6.<\/p>\n<p>Last up, a mixed doubles of almost celestial potential, <strong>Martina Navratilova<\/strong> pairing with <strong>Henri Leconte<\/strong>, and <strong>Martina Hingis<\/strong> alongside<strong> Mansour Bahrami<\/strong> across the net. Trickery and faux gamesmanship was to the fore always but didn\u2019t disguise the quite sublime skills of all four opponents, Hingis and Bahrami the eventual winners here 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile on court two, Almagro and Dolgopolov missed four consecutive points in a lengthy, match defining tie-break before coming through 6-5(10) against Wawrinka and Troicki.<\/p>\n<p>Finally a bonus for the fans as the two Martinas teamed up to play an interchanging combination of the four male legends, a real crowd pleaser and true to the spirit of the week, the ladies emerging easy winners 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>And when it came to totting up the wins, <strong>Team Wilander (Wilander and Wawrinka), <\/strong>came forward to receive the World Tennis Challenge trophy 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilander and Wawrinka named 2013 World Tennis Challenge Champions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":5330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}