{"id":64572,"date":"2018-10-27T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T13:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/27\/wta-finals-sloane-stephens-v-karolina-pliskova-semi-final-live\/"},"modified":"2018-10-27T15:51:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T13:51:03","slug":"wta-finals-sloane-stephens-v-karolina-pliskova-semi-final-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=64572","title":{"rendered":"WTA Finals: Sloane Stephens v Karolina Pliskova, semi-final \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WTA Finals updates from the 12.30 BST match in SingaporeStephens into semi-finals after beating Angelique KerberFeel free to email James your thoughts or via Twitter @piercy360 2.50pm BST Stephens speaks!I was thinking, \u2018I played so great this week and now I\u2019m going to lose love-love\u2019 \u2013 it was so embarrassing. She was playing really great and I couldn\u2019t put in a dent in her, I just tried to play great tennis and amazed I came out with a win. She\u2019s a great player when she\u2019s on \u2013 her serve is big, her forehand is big \u2013 I knew I had to keep battling. She was playing textbook tennis in that first set and all I could do was try and fight back, and that\u2019s what I did. 2.47pm BST Some notable match stats. Pliskova didn\u2019t serve a single ace despite 11 in this tournament up to the semi-final at the most on the WTA Tour this year. Stephens\u2019 first serve accuracy was also 79%, in the first set it was at 36% at one point. By contrast Pliskova was at just 45%, which for one of her best and most consistent weapons isn\u2019t good enough. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2018\/oct\/27\/wta-finals-sloane-stephens-v-karolina-pliskova-live\" target=\"_blank\">WTA Finals: Sloane Stephens v Karolina Pliskova, semi-final \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTA Finals updates from the 12.30 BST match in SingaporeStephens into semi-finals after beating Angelique KerberFeel free to email James your thoughts or via Twitter @piercy360 2.50pm BST Stephens speaks!I was thinking, \u2018I played so great this week and now I\u2019m going to lose love-love\u2019 \u2013 it was so embarrassing. [&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-64572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572","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=64572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}