{"id":8049,"date":"2011-06-30T16:26:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8049"},"modified":"2011-06-30T15:00:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T19:00:59","slug":"williams-sisters-knocked-out-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8049","title":{"rendered":"Williams Sisters Knocked Out  At Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND \u2014<strong> Venus<\/strong> and <strong>Serena Williams<\/strong> were both eliminated in the fourth round of Wimbledon on Monday, the first time in five years that neither sister will play in the quarterfinals at the All England Club.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion and four-time winner<strong> Serena<\/strong> was the first to go, beaten 6-3, 7-6 (6) by <strong>Marion Bartoli<\/strong> of France, cutting short the American\u2019s return to Grand Slam tennis after nearly a year out with serious health problems.<\/p>\n<p>Older sister and five-time champion<strong> Venus<\/strong> was ousted 6-2, 6-3 by <strong>Tsvetana Pironkova<\/strong> \u2014 the exact same score of the Bulgarian\u2019s win in last year\u2019s quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Also knocked out was top-seeded <strong>Caroline Wozniacki<\/strong>, who fell 1-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5 to No. 24 <strong>Dominika Cibulkova<\/strong> in the Dane\u2019s latest failed attempt to win her first Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND \u2014 Venus and Serena Williams were both eliminated in the fourth round of Wimbledon on Monday, the first time in five years that neither sister will play in the quarterfinals at the All England Club. Defending champion and four-time winner Serena was the first to go, beaten 6-3, 7-6 (6) by Marion Bartoli [&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-8049","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\/8049","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=8049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}