{"id":10880,"date":"2025-02-19T20:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/venus-williams-american-44-given-wildcard-at-indian-wells-despite-not-playing-match-in-almost-a-year\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T20:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:49:58","slug":"venus-williams-american-44-given-wildcard-at-indian-wells-despite-not-playing-match-in-almost-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/venus-williams-american-44-given-wildcard-at-indian-wells-despite-not-playing-match-in-almost-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams: American, 44, given wildcard at Indian Wells despite not playing match in almost a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their father, Richard, later accused fans of racial abuse. Serena returned to the tournament in 2015, while Venus played the following year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, 34, has also been handed a wildcard after her announcement earlier this month that she would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cdxnzqgx47vo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">return to tennis<\/a> following the birth of her first child in July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the men&#8217;s side, Brazil&#8217;s 18-year-old rising star Joao Fonseca, who won his first ATP Tour title at the Argentina Open on Sunday, was granted a wildcard along with American 19-year-old Learner Tien, who reached the fourth round of January&#8217;s Australian Open.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cwyj7rjg4wlo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their father, Richard, later accused fans of racial abuse. Serena returned to the tournament in 2015, while Venus played the following year. Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, 34, has also been handed a wildcard after her announcement earlier this month that she would return to tennis following the birth of her first child in July. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10882,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10880\/revisions\/10882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}