{"id":86303,"date":"2017-01-22T19:42:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T00:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=86303"},"modified":"2017-01-22T19:42:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T00:42:57","slug":"australian-open-williams-has-added-incentive-for-7th-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/22\/australian-open-williams-has-added-incentive-for-7th-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open: Williams has added incentive for 7th title"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_86304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86304\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16002909_10154964589791834_3062319063966875179_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86304\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16002909_10154964589791834_3062319063966875179_n.jpg\" alt=\"If Serena Williams (Pictured) needed any more incentive to win her seventh Australian Open title and a record 23rd Grand Slam major, she may have got it with top-ranked Angelique Kerber's fourth-round loss. (Photo: Serena Williams\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16002909_10154964589791834_3062319063966875179_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16002909_10154964589791834_3062319063966875179_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16002909_10154964589791834_3062319063966875179_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If Serena Williams (Pictured) needed any more incentive to win her seventh Australian Open title and a record 23rd Grand Slam major, she may have got it with top-ranked Angelique Kerber&#8217;s fourth-round loss. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SerenaWilliams\">Serena Williams\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MELBOURNE, Australia \u2013If Serena Williams needed any more incentive to win her seventh Australian Open title and a record 23rd Grand Slam major, she may have got it with top-ranked Angelique Kerber&#8217;s fourth-round loss.<\/p>\n<p>Williams began her match against Barbora Strycova on Rod Laver Arena on Monday knowing that if she does clinch the title next Saturday, she will overtake Kerber for the No. 1 ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Williams lost the top ranking, which she had held for three consecutive years, to Kerber after the German player won the U.S. Open in September.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Nadal will play a night match against Gael Monfils in an attempt to qualify for the quarterfinals, and Milos Raonic plays an afternoon match.<\/p>\n<p>Play began under sunny skies and a temperature of 32 Celsius (90 Fahrenheit).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia \u2013If Serena Williams needed any more incentive to win her seventh Australian Open title and a record 23rd &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":86304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[13737,13736],"class_list":["post-86303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-australian-open","tag-serena-williams","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86303","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=86303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}