{"id":22514,"date":"2013-09-10T02:17:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T00:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/serena-williams-defies-age-on-court\/"},"modified":"2013-09-10T02:17:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T00:17:48","slug":"serena-williams-defies-age-on-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/serena-williams-defies-age-on-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams defies age on court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/serenas-us-open-finals-outfit-not-so-much-of-a-winner\/btqzmjtcmaakj5z-11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16058\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16058  \" alt=\"Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams. Photo: Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/8db2e_BTqzmJtCMAAkj5Z-11-600x400.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Serena Williams <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/williams-beats-azarenka-in-us-open-final\/\" target=\"_blank\">became the oldest US Open women\u2019s champion<\/a> since Margaret Court in the seventies when she beat Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, South Africa\u2019s wheelchair tennis player <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/south-africas-sithole-claims-us-open-quads-title\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lucas Sithole made history<\/a> when he became the first African to win a singles title at the US Open by defeating David Wagner.<\/p>\n<p>Golfer Thomas Bjorn has something to smile about when he <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/bjorn-beats-lee-in-european-masters-play-off\/\" target=\"_blank\">won his first title in two years<\/a> after a play-off at the European Masters in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>And, finally, Blaze of Fire turned out to be a popular choice as the East Cape horse of the year this weekend. <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/blaze-of-fire-popular-choice-as-ec-horse-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for a list of the other winners.<\/p>\n<p>High five,<br \/>\nEd<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fff75_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams. Photo: Getty Images Serena Williams became the oldest US Open women\u2019s champion since Margaret Court in the seventies when she beat Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. Meanwhile, South Africa\u2019s wheelchair tennis player Lucas Sithole made history when he became the first African to win a singles title at the US Open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-22514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}