{"id":109014,"date":"2019-09-06T02:52:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T00:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/06\/serena-williams-beats-elina-svitolina-in-us-open-womens-semi-final-as-it-happened\/"},"modified":"2019-09-06T02:52:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T00:52:08","slug":"serena-williams-beats-elina-svitolina-in-us-open-womens-semi-final-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=109014","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams beats Elina Svitolina in US Open women&#039;s semi-final \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams reached the US Open final for the second successive year \u2013 and the 10th time in her career \u2013 with a 6-3, 6-1 victory 1.50am BST Remember when Williams was a teen phenom? No? Here\u2019s a stat to remind you: If Serena Williams advances to the @usopen final, she would own the largest gap between first Grand Slam final appearance and most recent final appearance at 19 yrs, 362 days. 1.43am BST That\u2019s Williams\u2019 101st win at the U.S. Open. She can tie Margaret Court\u2019s record of 24 Grand Slam titles if she wins the final. She keeps breaking ESPN commentator Chris Evert\u2019s Open records and would do so again with a win Saturday that would give her seven championships here, one ahead of Evert. Technically, she has a losing record against her possible final opponent, Canadian teen Bianca Andreescu. They\u2019ve only played once, when Williams had to retire from their matchup in the Rogers Cup last month. Related: Andreescu and Nadal win Rogers Cup titles as tearful Serena Williams retires hurt Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2019\/sep\/05\/serena-williams-elina-svitolina-us-open-womens-semi-final-live-score\" target=\"_blank\">Serena Williams beats Elina Svitolina in US Open women&#039;s semi-final \u2013 as it happened<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams reached the US Open final for the second successive year \u2013 and the 10th time in her career \u2013 with a 6-3, 6-1 victory 1.50am BST Remember when Williams was a teen phenom? No? Here\u2019s a stat to remind you: If Serena Williams advances to the @usopen final, [&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-109014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109014","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=109014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}