{"id":2795,"date":"2014-06-26T08:57:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T01:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2014-06-26T08:57:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T01:57:36","slug":"venus-williams-beats-kurumi-nara-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/tennis\/venus-williams-beats-kurumi-nara-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams beats Kurumi Nara &#8211; Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Williams overcame a slow start to beat Japan\u2019s Kurumi Nara 7-6 (4), 6-1 to get past the second round of a major for only the second time in her last 10 Grand Slam tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely a step in the right direction,\u201d Williams said. \u201cThe thing that I just have to really work on is being on tour consistently and playing tournaments.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tennis News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com\/pro-game\/2014\/06\/v-williams-beats-nara-to-reach-wimbledon-3rd-round\/51868\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; <a title=\"Tennis\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/category\/tennis\/\">Tennis<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams overcame a slow start to beat Japan\u2019s Kurumi Nara 7-6 (4), 6-1 to get past the second round of a major for only the second time in her last 10 Grand Slam tournaments. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely a step in the right direction,\u201d Williams said. \u201cThe thing that I just have to really work on is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[1157,1165,114,120,80,188,1272,337,1164,343],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-2014-wimbledon","tag-kurumi-nara","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport","tag-sport","tag-sport-news","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-news","tag-venus-williams","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}