{"id":11315,"date":"2013-12-11T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wtas-brussels-event-folds\/"},"modified":"2013-12-11T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T11:57:00","slug":"wtas-brussels-event-folds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wtas-brussels-event-folds\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA&#8217;s Brussels event folds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels, Belgium (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The WTA tournament in Brussels has folded after only three years.<\/p>\n<p>The clay-court event, which became too expensive to stage, was held the week before the French Open.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The current economic context and the ever-increasing investments to meet the demands of the WTA for the Premier label made it a difficult, near impossible task,&#8221; the tournament said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Estonian Kaia Kanepi captured this year&#8217;s Brussels Open in late-May, when the tournament was plagued by bad weather and small crowds.<\/p>\n<p>The Brussels Open replaced the Warsaw Open in 2011. Other champions in Brussels were former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki and former Wimbledon runner-up Agnieszka Radwanska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels, Belgium (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The WTA tournament in Brussels has folded after only three years. The clay-court event, which became too expensive to stage, was held the week before the French Open. &#8220;The current economic context and the ever-increasing investments to meet the demands of the WTA for the Premier label made it a difficult, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}