{"id":52360,"date":"2022-08-22T00:01:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T00:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/its-hard-to-believe-caroline-garcia-upsets-petra-kvitova-wins-western-southern-open-crown\/"},"modified":"2022-08-22T00:01:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T00:01:34","slug":"its-hard-to-believe-caroline-garcia-upsets-petra-kvitova-wins-western-southern-open-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/its-hard-to-believe-caroline-garcia-upsets-petra-kvitova-wins-western-southern-open-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s hard to believe&#8217; &#8211; Caroline Garcia upsets Petra Kvitova, wins Western &#038; Southern Open crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>MASON, Ohio &#8212; Caroline Garcia generated momentum going into next week&#8217;s US Open, capturing the Western &#038; Southern Open women&#8217;s tennis championship with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Petra Kvitova on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia, already the first qualifier to reach the tournament final, clinched the victory when Kvitova sent a second-serve return into the net.  Garcia dropped to her knees and lay on her back on the court after the final point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to believe I&#8217;m standing here today,&#8221; Garcia said in her postmatch speech to the crowd.  &#8220;It&#8217;s been such a week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Frenchwoman went into Sunday&#8217;s match with a WTA Tour-leading 25 wins since June.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every single win is important. Every single title is very special,&#8221; Garcia said.  &#8220;It&#8217;s always very hard to describe it. It&#8217;s not happening so often, and you have to really like enjoy it. I&#8217;m really grateful for this great week of tennis, and to win another title, it&#8217;s very special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The 28th-ranked Kvitova and 35th-ranked Garcia both shook off first-round losses the previous week in Toronto to make their first appearances in a Cincinnati final.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Definitely not the result I wanted, but &#8230; I have to take it like this and see the positive things,&#8221; Kvitova said.  &#8220;I know it&#8217;s hurting right now, but on the other side, I have to see it like overall and be proud on my 40th final of my career.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Garcia broke her Czech opponent in the first game and raced to a 4-0 lead.  Garcia also gained an early edge with a first-game break in the second set.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been such a crazy road the last couple of weeks, but I&#8217;ve really enjoyed it,&#8221; Garcia said.  &#8220;[Let&#8217;s] keep it going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kvitova, 32, left the court for treatment of an injury after falling behind 2-0 in the second set.  She looked sharper after but couldn&#8217;t overcome the early returning break.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MASON, Ohio &#8212; Caroline Garcia generated momentum going into next week&#8217;s US Open, capturing the Western &#038; Southern Open women&#8217;s tennis championship with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Petra Kvitova on Sunday. Garcia, already the first qualifier to reach the tournament final, clinched the victory when Kvitova sent a second-serve return into the net. Garcia &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/its-hard-to-believe-caroline-garcia-upsets-petra-kvitova-wins-western-southern-open-crown\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;It&#8217;s hard to believe&#8217; &#8211; Caroline Garcia upsets Petra Kvitova, wins Western &#038; Southern Open crown<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[213,46,19],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40743,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/serena-williams-says-countdown-has-begun-to-retirement\/","url_meta":{"origin":52360,"position":0},"title":"Serena Williams says &#8216;countdown has begun&#8217; to retirement","date":"August 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Saying \u201cthe countdown has begun,\u201d 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams Tuesday she is ready to step away from tennis so she can turn her focus to having another child and her business interests, presaging the end of a career that transcended sports.In an essay released Tuesday by Vogue magazine,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3080,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ode-to-iga-swiateks-135-day-37-match-unbeaten-streak\/","url_meta":{"origin":52360,"position":1},"title":"Ode to Iga Swiatek&#8217;s 135-day, 37-match unbeaten streak","date":"July 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"World No.1 Iga Swiatek's 37-match win streak came to an end Saturday in the third round at Wimbledoncapping off a remarkable run for the 21-year-old Polish star. 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