{"id":57300,"date":"2018-09-07T02:59:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T00:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/07\/serena-williams-swats-aside-anastasija-sevastova-to-reach-us-open-final\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T02:59:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T00:59:14","slug":"serena-williams-swats-aside-anastasija-sevastova-to-reach-us-open-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=57300","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams swats aside Anastasija Sevastova to reach US Open final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former world No1 makes her ninth final at Flushing MeadowsWilliams overcomes early break to win 6-3, 6-0As the lingering jitters that have dogged Serena Williams at various points of her otherwise impressive comeback fade, she is re-establishing the aura that has already put her one clear of Steffi Graf\u2019s 22 grand-slam titles and one short of the all-time record set by Margaret Court.When her confidence is fully restored \u2013 and that could happen in the final of the US Open on Saturday after her near faultless 6-3, 6-0 win over the unorthodox Latvian Anastasija Sevastova on Thursday night \u2013 two years of uncertainty in the women\u2019s game will be over. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/sep\/06\/serena-williams-anastasija-sevastova-us-open-tennis-semi-final-2018\" target=\"_blank\">Serena Williams swats aside Anastasija Sevastova to reach US Open final<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world No1 makes her ninth final at Flushing MeadowsWilliams overcomes early break to win 6-3, 6-0As the lingering jitters that have dogged Serena Williams at various points of her otherwise impressive comeback fade, she is re-establishing the aura that has already put her one clear of Steffi Graf\u2019s 22 [&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-57300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57300","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=57300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}