{"id":5232,"date":"2013-09-19T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/serena-pulls-out-of-next-weeks-tokyo-event\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T02:15:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T02:15:10","slug":"serena-pulls-out-of-next-weeks-tokyo-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/serena-pulls-out-of-next-weeks-tokyo-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena pulls out of next week&#8217;s Tokyo event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, Japan (Sports Network) &#8211; World No. 1 superstar Serena Williams has withdrawn from next week&#8217;s Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, citing fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is a two-time champion at the Pan Pacific event, capturing both of her appearances there in 2001 and 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old American has played in Asia only once since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m disappointed to have to withdraw from the Pan Pacific Open, which I was very much looking forward to playing this year,&#8221; Williams said. &#8220;Unfortunately, with the number of matches I have played throughout the summer, I need more time to properly recover.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams captured her fifth U.S. Open title two weeks ago and is a brilliant 67-4 overall this season, including a French Open title as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tokyo, Japan (Sports Network) &#8211; World No. 1 superstar Serena Williams has withdrawn from next week&#8217;s Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, citing fatigue. Williams is a two-time champion at the Pan Pacific event, capturing both of her appearances there in 2001 and 2002. The 31-year-old American has played in Asia only once since 2005. &#8220;I&#8217;m [&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-5232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232","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=5232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5268,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5232\/revisions\/5268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}