{"id":47356,"date":"2022-06-29T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=47356"},"modified":"2022-06-29T11:00:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T07:00:31","slug":"at-wimbledon-serena-williams-loses-1st-match-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2022\/06\/29\/at-wimbledon-serena-williams-loses-1st-match-in-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"At Wimbledon, Serena Williams loses 1st match in a year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;Serena Williams has lost her first singles match in nearly a year, getting beat by 115th-ranked Harmony Tan of France in a third-set tiebreaker at Wimbledon, Associated Press (AP) reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Williams was two points from victory but could not finish the job and bowed out with a 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) defeat on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They played at Centre Court with the arena&#8217;s retractable roof closed after the first set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Williams is a 23-time Grand Slam champion but the 40-year-old American had not competed in singles since she got injured in the first set of her first-round match at the All England Club on June 29, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has won Wimbledon seven times. This was only the third first-round exit in 80 career Grand Slam appearances for Williams. One came at the French Open in 2012 and one at Wimbledon a year ago when she had to stop playing because of an injured leg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Serena Williams has lost her first singles match in nearly a year, getting beat by 115th-ranked Harmony Tan of France in a third-set tiebreaker at Wimbledon, Associated Press (AP) reported. Williams was two points from victory but could not finish the job and bowed out with a 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) defeat on Tuesday night. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47358,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47356\/revisions\/47358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}