{"id":2290,"date":"2015-06-11T16:37:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T08:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2015-06-11T17:20:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T09:20:52","slug":"steffie-carruthers-creates-pacific-oceania-tennis-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/steffie-carruthers-creates-pacific-oceania-tennis-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Steffie Carruthers Creates Pacific Oceania Tennis History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samoan born Steffie Carruthers created Pacific Oceania Tennis history when she became the first player ever to win a professional tennis event.<\/p>\n<p>Playing with her Mexican partner, Carolina Betancourt, in the ITF $10,000 doubles event at Manzanillo, Mexico they withstood a tight 3 setter in the semis to again also win the doubles final in a Match Tie-Break against the all American pairing of Tornado Black\/Dasha Ivanova 6-1,4-6,12-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Steffie-Carruthers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Steffie Carruthers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Steffie-Carruthers-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This picture says it all and in talking to Steffie she says that &#8220;finally winning that Championship Point was such an amazing feeling; and that she will continue to work hard and strive for more success on tour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also wants to thank everyone for all the support she is receiving from her tennis family in the Pacific<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samoan born Steffie Carruthers created Pacific Oceania Tennis history when she became the first player ever to win a professional tennis event. Playing with her Mexican partner, Carolina Betancourt, in the ITF $10,000 doubles event at Manzanillo, Mexico they withstood &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/steffie-carruthers-creates-pacific-oceania-tennis-history\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steffie Carruthers Creates Pacific Oceania Tennis History<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}