{"id":47870,"date":"2021-03-21T18:49:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T19:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=47870"},"modified":"2021-03-21T22:02:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T22:02:29","slug":"serena-becomes-latest-star-to-withdraw-from-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=47870","title":{"rendered":"Serena becomes latest star to withdraw from Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams is the latest Grand Slam champion to withdraw from the Miami Open.<\/p>\n<p>Williams pulled out Sunday, citing recent oral surgery. Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer announced earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/miami-open-withdrawals-rafael-nadal-roger-federer-dominic-thiem\/1cb7ca3c-5891-4155-b8af-3ebd59963d5d\" title=\"they would skip the tournament\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they would skip the tournament<\/a>, which begins Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, has won the event a record eight times, most recently in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"8b574df1-0e2c-4eb5-aef3-588755bc8bcf\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/8b574df1-0e2c-4eb5-aef3-588755bc8bcf\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Miami is a special tournament for me because it&#x27;s my home,&quot; she said in a statement. &quot;I am sad I won&#x27;t be able to see the incredible fans this year, but I look forward to coming back soon.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Williams&#x27; most recent match was a month ago at the Australian Open, where she lost to Naomi Osaka in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Serena Williams is the latest Grand Slam champion to withdraw from the Miami Open. Williams pulled out Sunday, citing recent oral surgery. Novak Djokovic, Rafael <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=47870\" title=\"Serena becomes latest star to withdraw from Miami\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47872,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47870\/revisions\/47872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}