{"id":562458,"date":"2018-01-13T07:45:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=562458"},"modified":"2018-01-13T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T12:45:10","slug":"even-without-williams-aussie-open-womens-field-still-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=562458","title":{"rendered":"Even without Williams, Aussie Open women&#8217;s field still tough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/even-without-williams-aussie-open-women-s-field-still-tough\/17254248\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/tennis\/2018\/01\/13\/17254248\/media_26763f7e998f4ce28e0f7f01936443e0-DMID1-5dfpehlda-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Australian_Open_Tennis_85036\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>With no Serena Williams in the draw at the Australian Open, there&#8217;s certainly an opportunity for another women&#8217;s player to go on a surprising run and emerge as a first-time Grand Slam champion, as Sloane Stephens and Jelena Ostapenko did last year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/even-without-williams-aussie-open-women-s-field-still-tough\/17254248\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/even-without-williams-aussie-open-women-s-field-still-tough\/17254248\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Even without Williams, Aussie Open women&#039;s field still tough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With no Serena Williams in the draw at the Australian Open, there&#8217;s certainly an opportunity for another women&#8217;s player to go on a surprising run and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}