{"id":7948,"date":"2011-06-27T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7948"},"modified":"2011-06-27T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:16:49","slug":"serena-rallies-for-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7948","title":{"rendered":"Serena Rallies For Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WIMBLEDON, England &#8212; <strong>Serena Williams<\/strong> again was pushed to three sets before winning, then complained a bit about having to play on Court 2 instead of Centre Court or Court 1.<\/p>\n<p>By the looks of things so far, <strong>Williams<\/strong> is going to face a true test every time she takes the court this year at Wimbledon, which she has won four times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I definitely feel like I started slow,&#8221; said <strong>Williams<\/strong>, who wondered aloud afterward why she and her sister <strong>Venus <\/strong>each had to play on Court 2, while top men like <strong>Federer<\/strong>, <strong>Djokovic<\/strong>, <strong>Nadal<\/strong> and <strong>Andy Murray<\/strong> have been on one of the two principal courts for all of their matches this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got a little tight out there,&#8221; <strong>Williams<\/strong> added, &#8220;and I just need to relax.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tournament spokesman <strong>Johnny Perkins<\/strong> said there was no intentional snub, noting that several factors go into scheduling decisions, including TV broadcasting considerations, where players stand in the draw, and what ticket-buyers want to see.<\/p>\n<p>Consider it a testament to her skill and grit that<strong> Williams<\/strong> is into the third round. This is only her second tournament in the last 11 months after two operations on her right foot, clots in her lungs, and surgery to remove a pool of blood that gathered under the skin of her stomach.<\/p>\n<p>Her father, <strong>Richard<\/strong>, said he would have preferred if she would have waited another three months before coming back, just to be sure she was fully healed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIMBLEDON, England &#8212; Serena Williams again was pushed to three sets before winning, then complained a bit about having to play on Court 2 instead of Centre Court or Court 1. By the looks of things so far, Williams is going to face a true test every time she takes the court this year at [&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-7948","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\/7948","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=7948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}