{"id":22350,"date":"2014-08-20T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/serena-is-top-seed-at-the-open\/"},"modified":"2014-08-20T18:30:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T18:30:07","slug":"serena-is-top-seed-at-the-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/serena-is-top-seed-at-the-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena is top seed at the Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Five-time champion Serena Williams is the top seed for the U.S. Open, which will begin Monday in Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>The world No. 1 great has won the last two Opens by beating former top- ranked star Victoria Azarenka in a pair of finals. The powerful American has reached the last three finals in Flushing, having finished as a runner-up in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is followed in the seedings by French Open runner-up Simona Halep, Wimbledon champ Petra Kvitova, former Wimbledon finalist Agnieszka Radwanska and French Open titlist Maria Sharapova, who was a U.S. Open champ in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Seeds 6-through-10 in New York will be Angelique Kerber, Wimbledon runner-up Eugenie Bouchard, former French Open champ Ana Ivanovic, former U.S. Open runner-up Jelena Jankovic and former Open finalist Caroline Wozniacki.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the top-10 seeds &#8212; Williams, Sharapova, Ivanovic, Jankovic and Wozniacki &#8212; are former or current world No. 1s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Five-time champion Serena Williams is the top seed for the U.S. Open, which will begin Monday in Flushing Meadows. The world No. 1 great has won the last two Opens by beating former top- ranked star Victoria Azarenka in a pair of finals. The powerful American has reached the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22362,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22350\/revisions\/22362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}