{"id":2389,"date":"2022-08-30T02:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T02:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/serena-williams-battles-on-as-us-open-farewell-underway\/"},"modified":"2022-08-30T02:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T02:24:06","slug":"serena-williams-battles-on-as-us-open-farewell-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=2389","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams battles on as US Open farewell underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">Tue, 2022-08-30 05:19<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>\n\tNEW YORK: Serena Williams delayed her farewell to tennis on an electrifying opening night at the US Open on Monday as the sporting icon battled to victory in front of a star-studded crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe 23-time Grand Slam winner \u2014 who earlier this month signalled she plans to retire from tennis after the tournament \u2014 drew on all of her experience to down lowly ranked Montenegrin opponent Danka Kovinic 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above\">\n<div class=\"field-label\">Main category:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">Sport<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2152836\/sport\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tue, 2022-08-30 05:19 NEW YORK: Serena Williams delayed her farewell to tennis on an electrifying opening&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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