{"id":17009,"date":"2021-02-06T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T09:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=92074"},"modified":"2021-02-06T15:16:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T09:46:07","slug":"definitely-on-my-mind-serena-williams-says-slippery-24th-major-weighs-vigorously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/definitely-on-my-mind-serena-williams-says-slippery-24th-major-weighs-vigorously\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Definitely on my mind\u2019: Serena Williams says slippery 24th major weighs vigorously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams admitted Saturday her long pursue for a record-equalling 24<sup>th<\/sup> Grand Slam prize has been burdening her mind in front of the following week\u2019s Australia\u2019s Open<\/p>\n<p>Williams has not added to her sparkling assortment since beating her sister Venus in the Australian Open last in 2017 when she was pregnant with her little girl Olympia.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, pursuing Margaret Court\u2019s unequaled record, has since lost four Grand Slam finals, yet demanded she was currently used to the pressing factor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely on my shoulders and on my mind,\u201d said the 39-year-old. \u201cI think it\u2019s good to be on my mind\u2026 I\u2019m used to it now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Melbourne, Williams has been in aggressive form dropping just one set in three matches in the Yarra Valley Classic before withdrawing from semi-final showdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think at my age, my career, I really just try to go on how I\u2019m feeling physically and not put myself in a bad condition in general for my health,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cI didn\u2019t have really any negatives, I realized that my life is one big quarantine because I don\u2019t really leave the house much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not much different than what I normally do,\u201d she added. \u201cIt was simply being compelled to do that, not having some other alternatives. I think it was the best thing for all the players to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has had plenty o great win over top players, also she has a different game she mixes up the pace a lot,\u201d she said of the world number 51.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be great match for me to get in there ahead of scheduled and play my best,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serena Williams admitted Saturday her long pursue for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam prize has been burdening her mind in\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":37758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1374,1421,1038,269],"class_list":["post-17009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australia-open","tag-grand-slam","tag-melbourne","tag-serena-williams"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}