{"id":92127,"date":"2021-06-28T13:54:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T13:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=92127"},"modified":"2021-06-28T15:58:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T15:58:35","slug":"sabalenka-advances-comfortably-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=92127","title":{"rendered":"Sabalenka advances comfortably at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. 2-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus is <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/wimbledon-johanna-konta-out-covid19-close-contact-british-singles-seed\/523b5310-d3a5-4f1e-a2e2-0106d2f20c43\" title=\"this year&#x27;s first winner at Wimbledon.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">this year&#x27;s first winner at Wimbledon.<\/a> She swept her opening match against qualifier Monica Niculescu, 6-1, 6-4.\n<\/p>\n<p>They played under the retractable roof on Court 1 while the start of matches on outside courts was delayed by rain.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka has won a tour-leading 30 matches this year and her seeding is her highest at a major tournament. She dominated from the start against Niculescu, who had so much trouble holding she even tried an underhand serve.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/sport\" title=\"The only place tennis fans can watch every Wimbledon match is on Stan Sport. Start a seven day free trial of the Stan Sport add-on now!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>The only place tennis fans can watch every Wimbledon match is on Stan Sport. Start a seven day free trial of the Stan Sport add-on now!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"dd47f0c2-b946-490f-babd-05baa970141b\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/dd47f0c2-b946-490f-babd-05baa970141b\" alt=\"Sabalenka claims the first win of Wimbledon.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Novak Djokovic was greeted on his return to Wimbledon by a standing ovation with the Centre Court crowd limited to 50% capacity because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic won the tournament the last time it was held, in 2019, beating Roger Federer in an epic final. He is halfway to a Grand Slam in 2021, having won the Australian Open and the French Open.\n<\/p>\n<p>The No. 1-ranked Djokovic smiled as he entered the stadium. The retractable roof was closed because of rain that delayed the start of play on outer courts. Djokovic&#x27;s opponent is British wild card Jack Draper.\n<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic has won seven of the past 12 major tournaments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><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 clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>No. 2-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus is this year&#x27;s first winner at Wimbledon. She swept her opening match against qualifier Monica Niculescu, 6-1, 6-4. They <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=92127\" title=\"Sabalenka advances comfortably at Wimbledon\">[&#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\/92127"}],"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=92127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92129,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92127\/revisions\/92129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}