{"id":4697,"date":"2011-03-21T15:42:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2011-03-21T15:42:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T19:42:45","slug":"sidelined-serena-williams-says-she-has-been-%e2%80%98depressed%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"Sidelined Serena Williams Says She Has Been \u2018Depressed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 <strong>Serena Williams<\/strong> tells USA Today that she\u2019s \u201cat the end of (her) rope\u2019\u2019 after several physical setbacks that have kept her off the court since July.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview published in Wednesday\u2019s edition, <strong>Williams<\/strong> says it has been a \u201ctough year.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after her fourth Wimbledon title, <strong>Williams <\/strong>cut her foot on some broken glass at a restaurant &#8211; resulting in a pair of surgeries. Then last month, she suffered a pulmonary embolism and was hospitalized to remove a grapefruit-sized hemotoma from her stomach.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old says she was \u201cdefinitely depressed\u2019\u2019 after the second foot surgery: \u201cI cried all the time. I was miserable to be around.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The former No. 1 player in the world insists she\u2019s determined to return to the dominant form that led her to 13 Grand Slam singles titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Serena Williams tells USA Today that she\u2019s \u201cat the end of (her) rope\u2019\u2019 after several physical setbacks that have kept her off the court since July. In an interview published in Wednesday\u2019s edition, Williams says it has been a \u201ctough year.\u2019\u2019 Shortly after her fourth Wimbledon title, Williams cut her foot on [&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-4697","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\/4697","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=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}