{"id":22511,"date":"2018-01-05T02:01:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/05\/defending-champion-serena-williams-withdraws-from-australian-open\/"},"modified":"2018-01-05T02:01:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T01:01:09","slug":"defending-champion-serena-williams-withdraws-from-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=22511","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion Serena Williams withdraws from Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 23-times major winner and women\u2019s titleholder gave birth to her first child last September and says she is not yet ready to competeSerena Williams on Friday joined the galaxy of tennis stars who have withdrawn from the Australian Open, which starts on 15 January.The American \u2013 who won the title last year when seven weeks pregnant \u2013 is within one title of passing Margaret Court\u2019s all-time grand slam tally of 24, but felt she was not ready to return to the Tour after a long absence. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/jan\/05\/serena-williams-out-of-australian-open\" target=\"_blank\">Defending champion Serena Williams withdraws from Australian Open<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 23-times major winner and women\u2019s titleholder gave birth to her first child last September and says she is not yet ready to competeSerena Williams on Friday joined the galaxy of tennis stars who have withdrawn from the Australian Open, which starts on 15 January.The American \u2013 who won the [&hellip;]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-22511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22511","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=22511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}