{"id":13829,"date":"2012-04-09T15:42:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13829"},"modified":"2012-04-09T15:30:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:30:22","slug":"serena-dominates-venus-improves-at-family-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13829","title":{"rendered":"Serena Dominates, Venus Improves  At Family Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLESTON, S.C. \u2014What a week for the <strong>Williams<\/strong> sisters.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Serena<\/strong> gained a title, <strong>Venus<\/strong> found a renewed belief in her game and both showed a calm confidence at the Family Circle Cup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Serena<\/strong> capped a dominant week with a powerful performance in the finals Sunday, defeating <strong>Lucie Safarova<\/strong> 6-0, 6-1 to win the championship. It was <strong>Serena Williams\u2019<\/strong> 40th career tournament title and her first win on clay since taking this event in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Sister <strong>Venus<\/strong> has similar hopes. The 31-year-old star and seven-time grand slam winner was playing just her second tournament since an autoimmune disease\u2014 Sjogren\u2019s syndrome\u2014kept her sidelined for more than six months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venus Williams<\/strong> reached the quarterfinals in her return, showing off some solid tennis of her own in her first clay-court event in two years. <strong>Venus<\/strong> nearly made it to the semifinals, missing out on her first matchup with Serena since 2009 when <strong>Samantha Stosur<\/strong> rallied to win.<\/p>\n<p>Then <strong>Serena<\/strong> got a bit of sisterly revenge, ousting Stosur in dominating 6-1, 6-1 fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLESTON, S.C. \u2014What a week for the Williams sisters. Serena gained a title, Venus found a renewed belief in her game and both showed a calm confidence at the Family Circle Cup. Serena capped a dominant week with a powerful performance in the finals Sunday, defeating Lucie Safarova 6-0, 6-1 to win the championship. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}