{"id":5727,"date":"2017-09-08T03:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T01:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/08\/venus-williams-v-sloane-stephens-us-open-womens-semi-final-as-it-happened\/"},"modified":"2017-09-08T03:42:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T01:42:26","slug":"venus-williams-v-sloane-stephens-us-open-womens-semi-final-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=5727","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams v Sloane Stephens: US Open women&#039;s semi-final \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephens wins 6-1, 0-6, 7-5 over Williams to book place in US Open final 2.42am BST That\u2019s all for now. You can follow our game-by-game of the CoCo Vandeweghe-Madison Keys semi-final here and do check back later for a full report off both of tonight\u2019s matches. 2.35am BST The world No83 becomes the 14th unseeded player to advance to a major final in the Open era and only the fourth at the US Open. \u201cI have no words to describe what I\u2019m feeling,\u201d an emotional Stephens says in an on-court interview. \u201cWhat it took to get here, just the journey I\u2019ve been on &#8230; I have no words.\u201cWhen I started my comeback, if someone had told me I would have made two semi-finals and a grand slam final, I would have just passed out, which I\u2019m ready to do now. I don\u2019t even know how I got here. Just hard work.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2017\/sep\/07\/us-open-womens-semi-final-venus-williams-sloane-stephens-live\" target=\"_blank\">Venus Williams v Sloane Stephens: US Open women&#039;s semi-final \u2013 as it happened<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephens wins 6-1, 0-6, 7-5 over Williams to book place in US Open final 2.42am BST That\u2019s all for now. You can follow our game-by-game of the CoCo Vandeweghe-Madison Keys semi-final here and do check back later for a full report off both of tonight\u2019s matches. 2.35am BST The world [&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-5727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727","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=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}