{"id":44521,"date":"2018-06-09T15:54:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T13:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/09\/sloane-stephens-v-simona-halep-french-open-2018-womens-final-live\/"},"modified":"2018-06-09T15:54:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T13:54:04","slug":"sloane-stephens-v-simona-halep-french-open-2018-womens-final-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=44521","title":{"rendered":"Sloane Stephens v Simona Halep: French Open 2018 women&#039;s final \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American looking for second grand-slam title in last 12 monthsWorld No1 Halep seeks first major of careerAnd email Ben or tweet @benfisherj to get in touch 2.54pm BST Stephens tries a drop shot at 15-0, but it plops into the net &#8211; a rare misstep from the American. Her defence has been great throughout the match and she stays in the point at 30-15 before sending another shot into the net. Then Halep plays a drop shot of her own! And it works beautifully as Stephens can\u2019t quite get to it. Stephens shows her defence again though and a big serve takes the US Open champ to set point. Sloane then batters away at her opponent whose final shot of the set is VERY wide. 2.47pm BST First set: *Simona Halep 3-5 Sloane Stephens (*denotes server)A fairly comfortable hold for Halep but Stephens will not serve for the set and there\u2019s not much evidence she won\u2019t close out easily [prepares for Halep to break]&#8230; Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2018\/jun\/09\/french-open-2018-sloane-stephens-simona-halep-live-score\" target=\"_blank\">Sloane Stephens v Simona Halep: French Open 2018 women&#039;s final \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American looking for second grand-slam title in last 12 monthsWorld No1 Halep seeks first major of careerAnd email Ben or tweet @benfisherj to get in touch 2.54pm BST Stephens tries a drop shot at 15-0, but it plops into the net &#8211; a rare misstep from the American. Her defence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}