{"id":439240,"date":"2023-07-06T08:08:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/swiatek-begins-wimbledon-with-a-bang\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T08:41:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:41:15","slug":"swiatek-begins-wimbledon-with-a-bang","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/swiatek-begins-wimbledon-with-a-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek begins Wimbledon with a bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iga Swiatek took no time in dismantling her first-round opponent Zhu Lin, as the world No.1 swept past the Chinese player in a dominant fashion 6-1, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Lin is ranked No.34 and was one of the highest-rated opponent Swiatek could have faced, but the 22-year-old showed no mercy and quickly killed the Chinese dreams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Business as usual for Iga Swiatek   <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KZY1tKhNVG\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/KZY1tKhNVG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; US Open Tennis (@usopen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usopen\/status\/1675864804748144640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With this victory Swiatek cements even further her status as the favorite for the title, despite the Pole not being able to surpass the 4th round in her career ever.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Pegula also progressed to the 2nd round against a much tougher opposition in the face of fellow American Lauren Davis, whom she defeated 6-2, 6-7 (8), 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Azarenka is also through as she defeated China&#8217;s Yue Yuan in three sets 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>The first big name, who fell victim was 15th-seeded Russian Liudmila Samsonova, who crashed out against Romania&#8217;s Ana Bogdan 7-6 (1), 7-6 (4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iga Swiatek took no time in dismantling her first-round opponent Zhu Lin, as the world No.1 swept past the Chinese player in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439241,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16763,17133,17460,17234,17072],"news_category":[16714,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"video":[],"announce":"The Pole looked unstoppable in her first-round win"},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439240"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439240"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}