{"id":44748,"date":"2022-06-05T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44748"},"modified":"2022-06-06T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T14:18:08","slug":"two-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44748","title":{"rendered":"Two finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3750.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-44749 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3750-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44678\">I got up at crack of dawn<\/a> to watch Coco Gauff and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=44207\">Jessica Pegula<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jessica_Pegula\">1994<\/a>-; 2009; $4.9m) vs two French women Caroline Garcia (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caroline_Garcia\">1993<\/a>-; 2011; $11m) and Kristina &#8216;Kiki&#8217; Mladenovic (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kristina_Mladenovic\">1993<\/a>-; 2009; $12m), but was disappointed after the first set: the two Americans couldn&#8217;t get their act together any more, specially Pegula being passed left and right in the alley.<\/p>\n<p>The two French women came back strong and won. They&#8217;ve many similarities: both were born in the same year in France &#8211; from their names, their origins suggest Spain and Yugoslav; of similar high and physiques, and prize income. They deserved the win and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/tennis\/news\/french-open-prize-money-2022-purse-breakdown\/thzll9r0uxfp2k5yfsanr3rr\">$620,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Nadal def Casper Ruud (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Casper_Ruud\">1998<\/a>-; 2015; $7.5m) easily: 3, 3, 0. It&#8217;s Rafa&#8217;s 14th on the red clay and 22 overall. Their respective royal family came to cheer them on: King Felipe VI (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Felipe_VI\">1968<\/a>-; since 2014) of Spain and H.R.H. crown prince Haakon (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haakon,_Crown_Prince_of_Norway\">1973<\/a>-) of Norway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3765.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-44751\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3765-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-44750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3768-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3805.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-44752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_3805-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got up at crack of dawn to watch Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula\u00a0(1994-; 2009; $4.9m) vs two French women Caroline Garcia (1993-; 2011; $11m) and Kristina &#8216;Kiki&#8217; Mladenovic (1993-; 2009; $12m), but was disappointed after the first set: the two Americans couldn&#8217;t get their act together any more, specially Pegula being passed left and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}