{"id":353980,"date":"2017-06-30T19:19:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T11:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wozniacki-fends-off-watson-fightback-to-make-eastbourne-final\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T19:19:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T11:19:21","slug":"wozniacki-fends-off-watson-fightback-to-make-eastbourne-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wozniacki-fends-off-watson-fightback-to-make-eastbourne-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Wozniacki fends off Watson fightback to make Eastbourne final"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wozniacki, 26, took a medical timeout early in a second set and looked in trouble at a break down in the third but rallied to progress 6-2 3-6 7-5.<\/p>\n

Former world number one Wozniacki raced into a one-set lead in just 33 minutes and was a break up in the second before the Dane began to struggle with an abdominal injury.<\/p>\n

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Video –<\/span> Wozniacki downs Watson to make final<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

02:36<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Watson took full advantage to secure a double break with some masterful hitting that sent their semi-final to a deciding set.<\/p>\n

The pair exchanged breaks of serve early in the third but Wozniacki secured the decisive break as the Brit served to stay in the match.<\/p>\n

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Video –<\/span> Wozniacki: I got a little lucky today<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

01:33<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Wozniacki will face Pliskova in the final after her semi-final opponent Johanna Konta withdrew injured.<\/p>\n

Eastbourne International Women’s Singles semi-final results<\/h2>\n

3-Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) beat 5-Johanna Konta (Britain) walkover<\/p>\n

6- Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) beat Heather Watson (Britain) 6-2 3-6 7-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wozniacki, 26, took a medical timeout early in a second set and looked in trouble at a break down in the third but rallied to progress 6-2 3-6 7-5. Former world number one Wozniacki raced into a one-set lead in just 33 minutes and was a break up in the second before the Dane began […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":353981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[71,59,70],"class_list":["post-353980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-eurosport","tag-media","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}