{"id":14426,"date":"2017-12-19T12:48:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T12:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=14426"},"modified":"2017-12-19T12:48:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T12:48:57","slug":"serena-can-strongly-defend-her-australian-open-title-konta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/serena-can-strongly-defend-her-australian-open-title-konta\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena can strongly defend her Australian Open title: Konta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite former world no. 1 Serena Williams not being in action for almost a year, British no. 1 Johanna Konta still views Williams as the player to beat at the Australian Open in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was eight-weeks pregnant when she won the Australian Open to become t23-time Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n<p>The former world number has not played any competition since then and is likely to make a comeback in Melbourne for the first time since giving birth to a baby girl in September.<\/p>\n<p>Konta was Williams&#8217; victim in the quarter-finals and conceiving a defeat from the former world number has made the Briton believe that Serena is strong enough to defend her title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If anyone can come back so soon after giving birth, it&#8217;s probably going to be her,\u201d Konta was quoted as saying by the Sport24.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think regardless of how many matches she&#8217;s had previously or how much tennis she&#8217;s played, she&#8217;s always Serena and the player or the athlete she is, she brings a lot of that to the table regardless,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite former world no. 1 Serena Williams not being in action for almost a year, British no. 1 Johanna Konta still views Williams as the player to beat at the Australian Open in 2018. Williams was eight-weeks pregnant when she won the Australian Open to become t23-time Grand Slam champion. The former world number has [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14428,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426\/revisions\/14428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}