{"id":78714,"date":"2021-05-31T21:09:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T21:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=78714"},"modified":"2021-05-31T21:58:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T21:58:44","slug":"serena-survives-historic-roland-garros-night-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=78714","title":{"rendered":"Serena survives historic Roland Garros night match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams is a winner in the first scheduled night session in <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/live-scores\/french-open-2021\/11648\" title=\"French Open\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">French Open<\/a> history. She overcome two set points to beat Irina-Camelia Begu 7-6 (6) 6-2 under the lights in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Matches at last year&#x27;s tournament in September stretched into the night on courts with new lights. But scheduled night play is new this year at Roland Garros.<\/p>\n<p>Williams and Begu took the court in the twilight at 9pm, with the stadium stands empty. Fans are being admitted for day matches this year, but not for night sessions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The only place tennis fans can watch every Roland Garros match is on Stan Sport.<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stan.com.au\/sport\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Start a seven day free trial of the Stan Sport add-on now!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>Start a seven-day free trial of the Stan Sport add-on now!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"fe0172ce-1dbb-4efc-a418-cc57c34922bb\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/fe0172ce-1dbb-4efc-a418-cc57c34922bb\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Williams struggled with her first serve but moved well and played aggressively, charging forward when she had the chance. Facing a set point in the tiebreaker, she sprinted in and from the service line whacked a nervy swinging volley for a winner.<\/p>\n<p>She has won the French Open three times, most recently in 2015, and at age 39 is chasing a record-tying 24th Grand Slam singles title.<\/p>\n<p>Williams improved to 77-1 in first-round Slam matches. The loss came in Paris in 2012.<\/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 a winner in the first scheduled night session in French Open history. She overcome two set points to beat Irina-Camelia Begu 7-6 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=78714\" title=\"Serena survives historic Roland Garros night match\">[&#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\/78714"}],"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=78714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78716,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78714\/revisions\/78716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}