{"id":7878,"date":"2011-06-23T15:38:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T19:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7878"},"modified":"2011-06-23T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T19:19:52","slug":"a-win-then-tears-for-serena-williams-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7878","title":{"rendered":"A Win, Then Tears For Serena Williams At Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WIMBLEDON, England \u2014 Returning to Grand Slam tennis after a year out with health problems, <strong>Serena Williams<\/strong> opened her Wimbledon title defense Tuesday by beating<strong> Aravane Rezai <\/strong>in three sets \u2014 then burst into tears on Centre Court.<\/p>\n<p>After serving her 13th ace to close a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory, <strong>Williams<\/strong> buried her face in her towel and sobbed from her courtside chair. She was still crying as she left the court, overcome with emotion after enduring a long layoff that included two foot operations and treatment for blood clots in her lungs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIMBLEDON, England \u2014 Returning to Grand Slam tennis after a year out with health problems, Serena Williams opened her Wimbledon title defense Tuesday by beating Aravane Rezai in three sets \u2014 then burst into tears on Centre Court. After serving her 13th ace to close a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory, Williams buried her face in [&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-7878","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\/7878","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=7878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}