{"id":28425,"date":"2015-01-14T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/serena-is-top-seed-at-aussie-open\/"},"modified":"2015-01-14T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T10:08:00","slug":"serena-is-top-seed-at-aussie-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/serena-is-top-seed-at-aussie-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena is top seed at Aussie Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Australia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Five-time champion Serena Williams is the top seed at the Australian Open, which will commence Monday in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The world No. 1 great is followed by former champion, two-time Aussie runner- up and reigning French Open titlist Maria Sharapova, French Open runner-up Simona Halep, Wimbledon champ Petra Kvitova and former Aussie runner-up Ana Ivanovic. There are three current or former world No. 1s among the top-five seeds &#8212; Williams, Sharapova and Ivanovic.<\/p>\n<p>Seeds six through 10 are former Wimbledon runner-up Agnieszka Radwanska, last year&#8217;s Wimbledon runner-up Eugenie Bouchard, U.S. Open runner-up Caroline Wozniacki, Angelique Kerber and Ekaterina Makarova. Last year&#8217;s Aussie runner- up to Li Na, Dominika Cibulkova, is seeded 11th at the fortnight. Li retired from the WTA late last season.<\/p>\n<p>Former No. 1 Venus Williams, fresh off her title in Auckland last week, is seeded 18th in Melbourne, while two-time Aussie champ Victoria Azarenka will not be seeded Down Under.<\/p>\n<p>The draw will be announced on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne, Australia (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Five-time champion Serena Williams is the top seed at the Australian Open, which will commence Monday in Melbourne. The world No. 1 great is followed by former champion, two-time Aussie runner- up and reigning French Open titlist Maria Sharapova, French Open runner-up Simona Halep, Wimbledon champ Petra Kvitova and former Aussie [&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-28425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28425","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=28425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}