{"id":38348,"date":"2018-08-05T12:12:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T12:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=38348"},"modified":"2018-08-05T12:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T12:12:40","slug":"serena-williams-out-of-montreal-tourney-for-personal-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/serena-williams-out-of-montreal-tourney-for-personal-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams out of Montreal tourney for personal reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams has pulled out of next week\u2019s Rogers Cup hard-court tournament, citing personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament announced Williams\u2019 withdrawal on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-time Grand Slam champion is coming off the most lopsided defeat of her career, a 6-1, 6-0 loss to Johanna Konta in San Jose, California, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Williams was the runner-up at Wimbledon last month. That was just her fourth tournament since returning to the tour after having a baby in September and dealing with a health scare related to blood clots.<\/p>\n<p>The year\u2019s last major tournament, the U.S. Open, starts on Aug. 27.<\/p>\n<p>Williams will be replaced in the draw at Montreal by Tatjana Maria, who faces Alize Cornet in the first round.<\/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>Serena Williams has pulled out of next week\u2019s Rogers Cup hard-court tournament, citing personal reasons. The tournament announced Williams\u2019 withdrawal on Saturday. The 23-time Grand Slam champion is coming off the most lopsided defeat of her career, a 6-1, 6-0 loss to Johanna Konta in San Jose, California, on Tuesday. The 36-year-old Williams was the [&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":38349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38348","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\/38348","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=38348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38350,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38348\/revisions\/38350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}