{"id":73915,"date":"2019-01-01T15:03:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T14:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/01\/serena-williams-faces-roger-federer-for-first-time-hopman-cup-live\/"},"modified":"2019-01-01T15:03:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T14:03:40","slug":"serena-williams-faces-roger-federer-for-first-time-hopman-cup-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=73915","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams faces Roger Federer for first time \u2013 Hopman Cup live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams and Federer set for first on-court tennis meetingSwitzerland face USA in round-robin match in PerthFederer beats Tiafoe and Williams beats Bencic in singles 2.00pm GMT Second set: Bencic\/Federer* 3-3 Williams\/Tiafoe (*denotes server):Federer serves to Williams from the start. Serena keeps feeling her right shoulder; she has not been at her best today. Federer serves straight to 40-0. Then Tiafoe\u2019s failed return of a Federer volley takes us into the tie-break. 1.57pm GMT Second set: Bencic\/Federer 2-3 Williams\/Tiafoe* (*denotes server): Tiafoe serves again, and Bencic misses a chance for a winner at 15-15. Williams does the same in the very next point. A Federer error makes it 40-30 to the Americans. Then Serena has a winning chance as Federer makes a mess of a lob. That leaves a deciding point which Tiafoe holds after Federer\u2019s return comes back to him. A nervy hold for the Americans. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2019\/jan\/01\/serena-williams-faces-roger-federer-in-hopman-cup-live-tennis-usa-switzerland-tiafoe-bencic\" target=\"_blank\">Serena Williams faces Roger Federer for first time \u2013 Hopman Cup live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams and Federer set for first on-court tennis meetingSwitzerland face USA in round-robin match in PerthFederer beats Tiafoe and Williams beats Bencic in singles 2.00pm GMT Second set: Bencic\/Federer* 3-3 Williams\/Tiafoe (*denotes server):Federer serves to Williams from the start. Serena keeps feeling her right shoulder; she has not been at [&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-73915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73915","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=73915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}