{"id":28374,"date":"2015-01-12T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/illness-forces-halep-to-withdraw-in-sydney\/"},"modified":"2015-01-12T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T22:40:00","slug":"illness-forces-halep-to-withdraw-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/illness-forces-halep-to-withdraw-in-sydney\/","title":{"rendered":"Illness forces Halep to withdraw in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney, Australia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Simona Halep withdrew from the Sydney International tennis event on Tuesday, citing a gastrointestinal illness.<\/p>\n<p>Halep, the top seed in the tournament, won the Shenzhen Open title on Sunday but was not fully healthy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the tournament in China I got this problem in my stomach,&#8221; explained Halep. &#8220;I was waiting until today to see if I was ready to play again, but I feel like I cannot play. It&#8217;s tough to play a tournament like this, so unfortunately I decided to withdraw.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Halep, a runner-up at last year&#8217;s French Open, is expected to be ready for the Australian Open, which starts next week.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Gibbs took Halep&#8217;s spot in the tournament as a lucky loser and was whitewashed by Karolina Pliskova, 6-0, 6-0, in just 38 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney, Australia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Simona Halep withdrew from the Sydney International tennis event on Tuesday, citing a gastrointestinal illness. Halep, the top seed in the tournament, won the Shenzhen Open title on Sunday but was not fully healthy. &#8220;During the tournament in China I got this problem in my stomach,&#8221; explained Halep. &#8220;I was waiting [&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-28374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28374","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=28374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}