{"id":3793,"date":"2017-12-25T18:06:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T12:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.smartworld.asia\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2017-12-25T18:07:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T12:37:59","slug":"serena-williams-return-mubadala-world-tennis-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/serena-williams-return-mubadala-world-tennis-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams to return at Mubadala World Tennis Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mubadala World Tennis Championship will be the stage for Serena Williams\u2019 return to competitive action after becoming a mother.<\/h2>\n

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Serena Williams will make her first competitive appearance since becoming a mother at the Mubadala World Tennis Championships, tournament organisers have confirmed.<\/p>\n

Williams has not played since winning a record 23rd grand slam singles title at the Australian Open in January.<\/p>\n

She gave birth to a daughter, Alexis, in September but is now ready to make her comeback. She will take on surprise French Open winner Jelena Ostapenko at the invitational event in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.
\n\u201cI am delighted to be returning to the court in Abu Dhabi for the first time since the birth of my daughter in September,\u201d Williams said in a statement.
\n\u201cThe Mubadala World Tennis Championship has long marked the beginning of the men\u2019s global tennis season. I am excited and honoured to be making comeback as part of the first women to participate in the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to seeing the fans in Abu Dhabi at the 10th edition of the championship very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event is expected to serve as the first of a series of warm-up tournaments. As she prepares to try to defend her Australian Open crown at Melbourne Park next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mubadala World Tennis Championship will be the stage for Serena Williams\u2019 return to competitive action after becoming a mother. Serena Williams will make her first competitive appearance since becoming a mother at the Mubadala World Tennis Championships, tournament organisers have confirmed. Williams has not played since winning a record 23rd grand slam singles title …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1351],"tags":[5422],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-tennis-news","tag-mubadala-world-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartzworld.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}