{"id":380683,"date":"2017-12-06T15:06:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=380683"},"modified":"2017-12-06T15:06:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:06:56","slug":"serena-williams-entered-australian-open-tournament-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/12\/serena-williams-entered-australian-open-tournament-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams has entered Australian Open – Tournament director"},"content":{"rendered":"
Serena Williams has entered the Australian Open in January, tournament director Craig Tiley has said.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old\u00a0won this year’s event in Melbourne\u00a0while in the early weeks of pregnancy and\u00a0gave birth to a daughter in September.<\/p>\n
Tiley\u00a0told the Herald Sun<\/i>\u00a0the 23-time Grand Slam winner is “very likely” to return to tennis in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
“She’s got her visa, she’s entered, she’s practising,” he said. “There’s no question she’ll be ready in our view.”<\/p>\n
Williams, who has won the Australian Open seven times, has posted on social media that she has returned to training.<\/p>\n
Australia’s Margaret Court, with 24, is the only player still ahead of Serena in terms of Grand Slam singles titles.<\/p>\n
“She wants to break a record that is Margaret Court’s,” added Tiley. “It would be a pretty significant accomplishment for her to be able to do that.”<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Serena Williams has entered the Australian Open in January, tournament director Craig Tiley has said. The 36-year-old\u00a0won this year’s event in Melbourne\u00a0while in the early weeks of pregnancy and\u00a0gave birth to a daughter in September. Tiley\u00a0told the Herald Sun\u00a0the 23-time Grand Slam winner is “very likely” to return to tennis in Melbourne. “She’s got her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":380686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15240,3529],"yoast_head":"\n