{"id":17751,"date":"2018-01-08T11:58:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T11:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=17751"},"modified":"2018-01-08T11:58:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T11:58:49","slug":"former-champion-victoria-azarenka-withdraws-from-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/former-champion-victoria-azarenka-withdraws-from-australian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Former champion Victoria Azarenka withdraws from Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former champion Victoria Azarenka, who has been locked in a custody battle over her young son, pulled out of the Australian Open on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time winner had been handed a wildcard into the opening Grand Slam of the year in Melbourne, starting on January 15, but will not be making the trip.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s unfortunate that Azarenka is unable to travel to Australia this year,&#8221; tournament director Craig Tiley tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Australian Open is her favourite tournament and she&#8217;s looking forward to returning to Melbourne next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Azarenka returned from maternity leave in the middle of last year but skipped the US Open after a Los Angeles judge presiding in a custody case over her son Leo ruled she could not leave California until the matter had been settled.<\/p>\n<p>She had been in doubt for Melbourne Park after pulling out of last week&#8217;s Auckland Classic. The Belarusian is the latest top name to withdraw from the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>Serena Williams, herself a new mother, opted out last week, saying she was still not at the level needed for a major tournament after giving birth.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Murray and Kei Nishikori are also non-starters after succumbing to injury.<\/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>Former champion Victoria Azarenka, who has been locked in a custody battle over her young son, pulled out of the Australian Open on Monday. The two-time winner had been handed a wildcard into the opening Grand Slam of the year in Melbourne, starting on January 15, but will not be making the trip. &#8220;It\u2019s unfortunate [&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":17752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17751","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\/17751","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=17751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17753,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17751\/revisions\/17753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}