{"id":9544,"date":"2011-09-01T15:10:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2011-09-01T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T17:42:12","slug":"autoimmune-disease-knocks-venus-williams-out-of-u-s-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9544","title":{"rendered":"Autoimmune Disease Knocks Venus Williams Out Of U.S. Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014<strong> Venus Williams<\/strong> pulled out of the U.S. Open shortly before her second-round match Wednesday, saying she was diagnosed with Sjogren\u2019s Syndrome, an autoimmune disease that causes fatigue and joint pain.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old American, the champion at Flushing Meadows in 2000 and 2001, played her first match in two months Monday, when she beat <strong>Vesna Dolonts<\/strong> 6-4, 6-3 in the first round. <strong>Williams<\/strong> was supposed to face 22nd-seeded <strong>Sabine Lisicki<\/strong> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Williams<\/strong> had cited a virus when withdrawing from hard-court tuneup tournaments between Wimbledon and the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoyed playing my first match here, and wish I could continue, but right now I am unable to,\u201d <strong>Williams<\/strong> said in a statement released by the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thankful I finally have a diagnosis and am now focused on getting better and returning to the court soon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0 \u2014 Venus Williams pulled out of the U.S. Open shortly before her second-round match Wednesday, saying she was diagnosed with Sjogren\u2019s Syndrome, an autoimmune disease that causes fatigue and joint pain. The 31-year-old American, the champion at Flushing Meadows in 2000 and 2001, played her first match in two months Monday, when she [&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-9544","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\/9544","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=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}