{"id":33171,"date":"2018-06-05T12:04:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=33171"},"modified":"2018-06-05T12:04:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:04:35","slug":"injured-serena-pulls-out-of-sharapova-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/injured-serena-pulls-out-of-sharapova-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Serena pulls out of Sharapova tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris<br \/>\nSerena Williams announced her shock withdrawal from the French Open with injury on Monday just minutes before her scheduled fourth-round clash against long-time bitter rival and fellow Grand Slam icon Maria Sharapova.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old said she had suffered a pectoral muscle injury in her third-round win over Julia Goerges and \u201ccan\u2019t serve at all\u201d. The 23-time Grand Slam champion added that she would stay in Paris for scans on the injury to find out how long she will be out of action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI unfortunately have been having some issues with my pec, my pec muscle, and (it) has unfortunately been getting worse to the point where right now I can\u2019t actually serve. It\u2019s kind of hard to play when I can\u2019t physically serve,\u201d she explained. She was unable to say whether or not she would be fit for Wimbledon which gets underway in four weeks\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m beyond disappointed,\u201d added Williams who was playing first Grand Slam since winning the 2017 Australian Open while two months pregnant.<\/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>Paris Serena Williams announced her shock withdrawal from the French Open with injury on Monday just minutes before her scheduled fourth-round clash against long-time bitter rival and fellow Grand Slam icon Maria Sharapova. The 36-year-old said she had suffered a pectoral muscle injury in her third-round win over Julia Goerges and \u201ccan\u2019t serve at all\u201d. [&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":33172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33171","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\/33171","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=33171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33173,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33171\/revisions\/33173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}