{"id":22213,"date":"2013-07-01T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22213"},"modified":"2013-07-01T08:57:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:57:09","slug":"serena-cruises-into-wimbledon-round-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22213","title":{"rendered":"Serena Cruises Into Wimbledon Round 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) &#8211; Five-time champion<strong> Serena Williams<\/strong> avoided the kind of early upset that has sent many top players tumbling out of Wimbledon, beating <strong>Caroline Garcia<\/strong> 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday to reach the third round.<\/p>\n<p>A day after <strong>Roger Federer<\/strong> topped the list of big names to go out in the second round, the top-ranked <strong>Williams<\/strong> was never in trouble against the 100th-ranked French qualifier.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Williams<\/strong> broke twice in each set to advance to a match with Japanese veteran <strong>Kimiko Date-Krumm<\/strong>, who at 42 became the oldest woman to reach the third round at Wimbledon in the Open era.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date-Krumm<\/strong> beat <strong>Alexandra Cadantu<\/strong> of Romania 6-4, 7-5 to reach the third round for the first time since 1996, when she made it to the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) &#8211; Five-time champion Serena Williams avoided the kind of early upset that has sent many top players tumbling out of Wimbledon, beating Caroline Garcia 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday to reach the third round. A day after Roger Federer topped the list of big names to go out in the second round, the top-ranked [&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-22213","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\/22213","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=22213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}