{"id":112569,"date":"2021-08-06T08:11:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=112569"},"modified":"2021-08-06T08:56:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:56:36","slug":"sherif-becomes-first-egyptian-to-reach-a-wta-last-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=112569","title":{"rendered":"Sherif becomes first Egyptian to reach a WTA last-eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Sherif.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Cluj-Napoca: Mayar Sherif on Thursday became the first Egyptian woman to reach the quarter-finals of a WTA tournament when she defeated Alexandra Eala of the Philippines at Cluj in Romania.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sherif, ranked 119 in the world, eased to a 6-2, 6-2 second round victory over her 16-year-old opponent who was making her debut in the main draw of a top-level event.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Sherif, a former United States college player, will face eighth-seeded Kristina Kucova for a place in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Kucova, ranked 118, defeated Irina Maria Bara of Romania 2-6, 7-6 (7\/3), 7-6 (7\/5) in her second round tie at the claycourt event.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/tokyo-2020-zverev-wins-gold-mens-singles-tennis-tournament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tokyo 2020: Zverev wins gold in men\u2019s singles tennis tournament<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Cluj-Napoca: Mayar Sherif on Thursday became the first Egyptian woman to reach the quarter-finals of a WTA tournament when she defeated Alexandra Eala of the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=112569\" title=\"Sherif becomes first Egyptian to reach a WTA last-eight\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112571,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112569\/revisions\/112571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}