{"id":101265,"date":"2019-07-11T16:01:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/11\/wimbledon-2019-semi-final-serena-williams-v-barbora-strycova-live\/"},"modified":"2019-07-11T16:01:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T14:01:38","slug":"wimbledon-2019-semi-final-serena-williams-v-barbora-strycova-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=101265","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2019 semi-final: Serena Williams v Barbora Strycova \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halep beats Svitolina in straight sets to reach finalDiary: Henman defends Konta, Navratilova trolls TrumpAnd you can email Katy here or tweet her here 3.01pm BST Williams says: \u201cThis is the first time since Australia that I actually felt good. It\u2019s been a really, really long year for me already, and hard year, because I\u2019m usually not typically injured. Now that I feel good, I can actually focus on training and technique and practice, something that I just literally haven\u2019t been able to do a lot of.\u201dStrycova says: \u201cOf course, I don\u2019t have as much power as Serena, but I have other weapons. I have really nothing to lose. When you go out there, you just focus on yourself and you focus how to beat that opponent, the way you want to beat her. So I am not really scared to play her. I just really will try my best and I will fight as much as I can.\u201d 3.00pm BST Tik! Tok! Tik! Tok! They\u2019re warming up, the 5ft 10in Williams against the 5ft 5in Strycova. Williams leads the head-to-head 3-0, which includes their 2012 match at Wimbledon. This is a real contrast in styles between the power of Williams and the serve-volleying and slicing and dicing of the crafty Czech. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2019\/jul\/11\/wimbledon-2019-svitolina-halep-serena-williams-strycova-live-semi-finals\" target=\"_blank\">Wimbledon 2019 semi-final: Serena Williams v Barbora Strycova \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halep beats Svitolina in straight sets to reach finalDiary: Henman defends Konta, Navratilova trolls TrumpAnd you can email Katy here or tweet her here 3.01pm BST Williams says: \u201cThis is the first time since Australia that I actually felt good. It\u2019s been a really, really long year for me already, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}