{"id":24164,"date":"2014-10-03T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/serena-withdraws-from-china-open\/"},"modified":"2014-10-03T02:46:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T02:46:00","slug":"serena-withdraws-from-china-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/serena-withdraws-from-china-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena withdraws from China Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, China (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; U.S. Open champion Serena Williams withdrew from the China Open ahead of her quarterfinal match against Sam Stosur due to a left knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who was the defending champion in Beijing, retired from a match last week at the Wuhan Open due to a virus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I started to feel pain this week,&#8221; Williams said. &#8220;It throbs just sitting, standing. I felt it mostly serving because I&#8217;m landing on my left knee. That was really killer for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who captured her 18th Grand Slam singles title at the U.S. Open last month, beat Jelena Jankovic for last year&#8217;s Beijing title and also captured this event in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Stosur will move on to the semifinals of a premier mandatory-level event for the first time since Indian Wells in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, China (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; U.S. Open champion Serena Williams withdrew from the China Open ahead of her quarterfinal match against Sam Stosur due to a left knee injury. Williams, who was the defending champion in Beijing, retired from a match last week at the Wuhan Open due to a virus. &#8220;I started to feel pain [&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-24164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164","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=24164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}