{"id":725,"date":"2007-08-06T06:32:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T13:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2007-08-06T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T15:33:11","slug":"sharapova-shuts-down-acura-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Sharapova Shuts Down Acura Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/2007-8-6-75976251.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/2007-8-6-75976251.jpg','popup','width=300,height=204,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/2007-8-6-75976251-tm.jpg\" height=\"136\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"2007-8-6-75976251\" \/><\/a><strong>Maria Sharapova&#8217;s<\/strong> &#8220;powerful baseline attack&#8221; was apparently too much for Switzerland&#8217;s <strong>Patty Schnyder<\/strong> as the Amazonian goddess plowed right through to win the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acuraclassic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">2007 Acura Classic<\/a><\/strong> at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacosta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">La Costa Resort and Spa<\/a><\/strong> on Sunday 6-2, 3-6, 6-0.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the first set I hit some really good shots when she was serving and that opened doors for me,&#8221; Sharapova told reporters. . . In the second set I lost that extra step and once you give her a little edge, she&#8217;s going to get a lot of balls back and she&#8217;s not going to waste her time. I hesitated for too many balls and I knew I had to step in and hit it again.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And with that, the Acura Classic is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/sports\/20070806-9999-1s6acside.html\" target=\"_blank\">no more<\/a><\/strong>. Unfortunately, we were not there to see it. If you were, let us know how it went in the commments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.epochtimes.com\/news\/7-8-6\/58433.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Epoch Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Sharapova&#8217;s &#8220;powerful baseline attack&#8221; was apparently too much for Switzerland&#8217;s Patty Schnyder as the Amazonian goddess plowed right through to win the 2007 Acura Classic at the La Costa Resort and Spa on Sunday 6-2, 3-6, 6-0. &#8220;In the first set I hit some really good shots when she was serving and that opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}