{"id":992,"date":"2021-08-25T09:19:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T09:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/?p=992"},"modified":"2021-08-25T09:19:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T09:19:36","slug":"venus-crashes-out-in-first-round-of-chicago-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2021\/08\/25\/venus-crashes-out-in-first-round-of-chicago-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus crashes out in first round of Chicago Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chicago, AUG 24 (Agencies) | Publish Date: 8\/24\/2021 11:39:52 AM IST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seven-time Grand Slam singles champion Venus Williams crashed out of the Chicago Women\u2019s Open in the first round after being handed a wildcard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It came after her world ranking dropped to 147, her lowest since 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The oldest person in the draw at 41, former world number one Williams lost 6-2 6-3 to Taiwan\u2019s Hsieh Su-wei. Elsewhere at the WTA 250 tournament, Great Britain\u2019s Heather Watson retired hurt while 6-2 1-0 down against Romania\u2019s Ana Bogdan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Cleveland Championships, GB\u2019s Tara Moore was beaten 6-4 7-5 by Linda Fruhvirtova in the first round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US Open qualifying starts on Tuesday, with seven British players hoping to join Johanna Konta, Watson, Dan Evans, Cameron Norrie and Andy Murray in the main draw. Williams has been awarded a wildcard for the Grand Slam &#8211; at which she won the singles title in 2000 and 2001. The US Open takes place from August 30-September 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago, AUG 24 (Agencies) | Publish Date: 8\/24\/2021 11:39:52 AM IST Seven-time Grand Slam singles champion Venus Williams crashed out of the Chicago Women\u2019s Open in the first round after being handed a wildcard. It came after her world ranking dropped to 147, her lowest since 1997. The oldest person in the draw at 41, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}