{"id":122499,"date":"2017-10-09T23:41:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T03:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=122499"},"modified":"2017-10-09T23:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T03:41:03","slug":"serena-williams-could-be-back-to-defend-australian-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/09\/serena-williams-could-be-back-to-defend-australian-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams could be back to defend Australian title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_122501\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122501\" style=\"width: 449px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/16998249_10155089134686834_1430021956352591795_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122501\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/16998249_10155089134686834_1430021956352591795_n.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Serena Williams (Photo: Serena Williams\/Facebook)\" width=\"449\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/16998249_10155089134686834_1430021956352591795_n.jpg 449w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/16998249_10155089134686834_1430021956352591795_n-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Serena Williams (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SerenaWilliams\/photos\/a.471583551833.283236.14185406833\/10155089134686834\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SerenaWilliams\/\">Serena Williams\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Australian Open officials are hopeful Serena Williams will make her competitive comeback to tennis next January to defend the title at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference Tuesday called to announce an increase in prize money for the year&#8217;s first major, tournament director Craig Tiley said Williams was planning on playing the Jan. 15-28 Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was pregnant last January when she beat her sister Venus in the final. Serena gave birth to a daughter, Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., on Sept. 1 and has previously said she plans to return to playing in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s in Melbourne, she&#8217;ll be competing for more money. Tiley said the overall prize pool would be 55 million Australian dollars ($42.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s singles champions will earn $A4 million (about $3.1 million depending on exchange rates), an increase of 20 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Australian Open officials are hopeful Serena Williams will make her competitive comeback to tennis next January to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":122501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[13737,13736],"class_list":["post-122499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-australian-open","tag-serena-williams","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}