Title defenses are hard to come by in Tennis Paradise. According to the history books, they are even harder for the women. Not since 1991, when legendary Martina Navratilova won her second of two titles in the California desert, has a woman managed to complete a successful singles title defense.<\/p>\n
The streak continues.<\/p>\n
Defending champion Mirra Andreeva<\/a> was knocked out of the draw by Katerina Siniakova<\/a> of Czechia in Stadium 1 on Monday, 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-3. Last year\u2019s champion, who won by a 6-0, 6-0 scoreline in her first match of the tournament, was riding a seven-match winning streak into Monday’s match. She battled ferociously, but couldn\u2019t hold off the 44th-ranked Czech, who also happens to be a ten-time women\u2019s doubles Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m really emotional right now,\u201d Siniakova said after reaching the round of 16 at Indian Wells for the first time. \u201cI don\u2019t feel any part of my body. I just kept fighting \u2013 I don\u2019t believe it, I don\u2019t know what to say.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Title defenses are hard to come by in Tennis Paradise. According to the history books, they are even…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-514851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}