{"id":1144120,"date":"2022-07-07T16:01:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/african-woman-reaches-wimbledon-finals-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T16:01:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T16:01:12","slug":"african-woman-reaches-wimbledon-finals-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/african-woman-reaches-wimbledon-finals-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"African woman reaches Wimbledon finals for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"455\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/First-African-woman-to-reach-Wimbledon.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"First African woman to reach Wimbledon \/ Credit: REUTERS\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First African woman to reach Wimbledon \/ Credit: REUTERS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tunisian third seed Ons Jabeur became the first Arab and African woman to reach a Grand Slam singles final as she beat German mother-of-two Tatjana Maria in the last four at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Jabeur won 6-2 3-6 6-1 against 103rd-ranked Maria, who aimed to become the lowest-ranked woman to reach the final.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pair are good friends but were rivals on Centre Court, sharing a long and loving embrace at the net.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Jabeur, 27, will face Simona Halep or Elena Rybakina in Saturday\u2019s showpiece.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"vxYS4a868Pg\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Premtobre Kasee on Adom TV (7-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vxYS4a868Pg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First African woman to reach Wimbledon \/ Credit: REUTERS Tunisian third seed Ons Jabeur became the first Arab and African woman to reach a Grand Slam singles final as she beat German mother-of-two Tatjana Maria in the last four at Wimbledon. Jabeur won 6-2 3-6 6-1 against 103rd-ranked Maria, who aimed to become the lowest-ranked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1144122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[461,264,5746,521,18139,1029],"class_list":["post-1144120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-african","tag-finals","tag-reaches","tag-time","tag-wimbledon","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}