{"id":6,"date":"2009-01-08T10:17:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T18:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/General-Knowledge-Current-Affairs\/?p=6"},"modified":"2009-01-08T10:17:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T18:17:40","slug":"tennis-major-tournment-winners-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Tennis &#8211; Major Tournment Winners in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Open, 2008<br \/>\n(Flushing Meadow, N.Y., Aug. 25-Sept. 7, 2008)<\/p>\n<p>* Men&#8217;s singles\u2014Roger Federer defeats Andy Murray 6-2, 7-5, 6-2<br \/>\n* Women&#8217;s singles\u2014Serena Williams defeats elena Jankovic 6-5, 7-5<br \/>\n* Men&#8217;s doubles\u2014Mike Brian and Bob Bryan defeat Lukas Dlouhy and Leander Paes 7-6 (5), 7-6 (10)<br \/>\n* Women&#8217;s doubles\u2014Cara Black and Liezel Huber defeat Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur 6-3, 7-6 (6)<br \/>\n* Mixed doubles\u2014Cara Black and Leander Paes defeat Liezel Huber and Jamie Murray 7-6 (6), 6-4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Australian Open, 2008\u00a0 Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Men&#8217;s singles\u2014Novak Djokovic defeats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6(2)<br \/>\n* Women&#8217;s singles\u2014 Maria Sharapova defeats Ana Ivanovic 7-5, 6-3<br \/>\n* Men&#8217;s doubles\u2014Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram defeat Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra 7-5, 7-6(4)<br \/>\n* Women&#8217;s doubles\u2014 Alona Bondarenko and Kateryna Bondarenko defeat Victoria Azarenka and Shahar Peer 2-6, 6-1, 6-4<br \/>\n* Mixed doubles\u2014Tiantian Sun and Nenad Zimonjic defeat Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi 7-6(4), 6-4<\/p>\n<p><strong>French Open, 2008 <\/strong><strong> Winners<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><br \/>\n* Men&#8217;s singles\u2014Rafael Nadal defeats Roger Federer 6-1, 6-3, 6-0<br \/>\n* Women&#8217;s singles\u2014Ana Ivanovic defeats Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-3<br \/>\n* Men&#8217;s doubles\u2014Pablo Cuevas and Luis Horna defeat Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic 6-2, 6-3<br \/>\n* Women&#8217;s doubles\u2014Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual defeat Casey Dellacqua and Francesca Schiavone 2-6, 7-5, 6-4<br \/>\n* Mixed doubles\u2014Victoria Azarenka and Bob Bryan defeat Katarina Srebotnik and Nenad Zimonjic 6-2, 7-6(4)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wimbledon Champions, 2008<\/strong><strong> Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* Men&#8217;s singles\u2014Rafael Nadal defeats Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 (5-7), 6-7 (8-10), 6-7, 9-7<br \/>\n* Women&#8217;s singles\u2014Venus Williams defeats Serena Williams 7-5, 6-4<br \/>\n* Men&#8217;s doubles\u2014Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic defeat Jonas Bjorkman and Kevin Ullyett 7-6 (14-12), 6-7 (3-7), 6-3, 6-3.<br \/>\n* Women&#8217;s doubles\u2014Serena Williams and Venus Williams defeat Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur 6-2, 6-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Open, 2008 (Flushing Meadow, N.Y., Aug. 25-Sept. 7, 2008) * Men&#8217;s singles\u2014Roger Federer defeats Andy Murray 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 * Women&#8217;s singles\u2014Serena Williams defeats elena Jankovic 6-5, 7-5 * &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=6\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1673],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}