{"id":17328,"date":"2022-03-21T03:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=205360"},"modified":"2022-03-21T03:21:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T21:51:00","slug":"iga-swiatek-is-indian-wells-masters-2022-champion-defeats-maria-sakkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/iga-swiatek-is-indian-wells-masters-2022-champion-defeats-maria-sakkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Iga Swiatek is Indian Wells Masters 2022 champion, defeats Maria Sakkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an incredible run for the Polish professional at the Indian Wells Masters. The 20-year-old beat Maria Sakkari in straight sets with a score of 6-4, 6-1 to clinch the BNP Paribas Open trophy. The victory will take Swiatek up at No. 2 in WTA Rankings while Sakkari will be processing to No. 3.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc6 Dominating the Desert \ud83c\udfc6<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IndianWells?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IndianWells<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DIYv5FfqEv\">pic.twitter.com\/DIYv5FfqEv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BNP Paribas Open (@BNPPARIBASOPEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNPPARIBASOPEN\/status\/1505657932301553664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Iga Swiatek becomes the first player from Poland to win the Indian Wells title. The title is her third WTA 1000 in the last 10 months extending her winning streak to 11 matches. Newly crowned Indian Wells Masters\u2019 champion of the women\u2019s singles, Swiatek had dusted off former World No. 1 Simone Halep in the semifinals of the tournament while Sakkari came past defending champion Paula Badosa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iga Swiatek becomes the first player from Poland to win the Indian Wells title. The title is her third WTA 1000 in the last 10 months extending her winning streak to 11 matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":38073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2052,1455,2815,3239],"class_list":["post-17328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-bnp-paribas-open","tag-iga-swiatek","tag-indian-wells-masters","tag-maria-sakkari"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}