{"id":360965,"date":"2017-07-11T20:26:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T12:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/venus-gives-lesson-in-match-play-to-ostapenko-as-she-reaches-semi-finals\/"},"modified":"2017-07-11T20:26:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T12:26:37","slug":"venus-gives-lesson-in-match-play-to-ostapenko-as-she-reaches-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/venus-gives-lesson-in-match-play-to-ostapenko-as-she-reaches-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus gives lesson in match-play to Ostapenko as she reaches semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.eurosport.com\/2017\/07\/11\/2125394-44465299-640-360.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">The five-times champion, who turned 37 last month, tamed the big-hitting Latvian with a rock-solid performance under the Centre Court roof, winning with something to spare.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"storyfull__paragraphs-see-also\">\n<li class=\"related-stories__list\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurosport.com\/tennis\/wimbledon\/2017\/live-venus-williams-jelena-ostapenko_mtc933861\/live.shtml\"><span class=\"related-stories__list-event\">See also<\/span><span class=\"related-stories__list-label\">Venus Williams v Jelena Ostapenko: LIVE<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">Williams, who had already disposed of a 21-year-old and two teenagers en route to her 38th grand slam quarter-final, barely flinched against the 20-year-old French Open champion whose magnificent 11-match winning run in majors came to an end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">The American, who must scroll back to the 2008 Wimbledon for her seventh, and most recent, grand slam singles title, broke Ostapenko&#8217;s serve in the second game and was untroubled in taking the opener in 29 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">She sealed it when her 13th-seeded opponent swished at thin air on an attempted forehand service return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">Ostapenko was subdued as Williams secured an early break in the second set, although she got a helping hand back into the match when Williams double-faulted to drop serve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">That had the effect of lighting the Ostapenko fuse and she began to look threatening as she held serve to love with an ace to move 4-3 ahead on a gloomy Centre Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">Williams had to serve to stay in the second set at 4-5 and was relieved to see an Ostapenko return land narrowly wide at 30-30 before squaring the set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"storyfull__paragraph\">Ostapenko felt the pressure in the next game when a hurried forehand into the net gave Williams the break and the veteran needed no second invitation, holding serve to love to claim victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The five-times champion, who turned 37 last month, tamed the big-hitting Latvian with a rock-solid performance under the Centre Court roof, winning with something to spare. See alsoVenus Williams v Jelena Ostapenko: LIVE Williams, who had already disposed of a 21-year-old and two teenagers en route to her 38th grand slam quarter-final, barely flinched against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":360966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[71,59,70],"class_list":["post-360965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-eurosport","tag-media","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}