{"id":88277,"date":"2021-06-20T21:22:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T21:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=88277"},"modified":"2021-06-21T00:02:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T00:02:13","slug":"jabeur-makes-history-with-birmingham-wta-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=88277","title":{"rendered":"Jabeur makes history with Birmingham WTA title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second-seeded Ons Jabeur became the first Arab woman to win a WTA singles title with a 7-5 6-4 victory over Daria Kasatkina in <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/live-scores\/viking-classic-birmingham-2021\/11731\" title=\"the Viking Classic\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Viking Classic<\/a> final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It was also the Tunisian player&#x27;s first victory against Kasatkina. The fourth-seeded Russian, who was going for her third title this year, had won both previous contests against Jabeur, but they were not on grass.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"10afa3a0-7ce5-4dfc-94ca-53a02126fc37\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/10afa3a0-7ce5-4dfc-94ca-53a02126fc37\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 24th-ranked Jabeur lost her two previous singles finals \u2014 against Kasatkina in Moscow in 2018 and at Charleston earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>Jabeur has a tour-leading 28 wins this year, tied with top-ranked Ashleigh Barty.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Second-seeded Ons Jabeur became the first Arab woman to win a WTA singles title with a 7-5 6-4 victory over Daria Kasatkina in the Viking <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=88277\" title=\"Jabeur makes history with Birmingham WTA title\">[&#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\/88277"}],"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=88277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88279,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88277\/revisions\/88279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}