{"id":16205,"date":"2020-08-15T12:19:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T07:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16205"},"modified":"2020-08-15T12:20:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T07:20:15","slug":"reigning-champion-bianca-andreescu-out-of-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16205","title":{"rendered":"Reigning champion Bianca Andreescu out of US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Defending Grand Slam champion Bianca Andreescu pulled out of the US Open on Thursday because she said the coronavirus compromised her form.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I have taken this step in order to focus on my match fitness and ensure that I return ready to play at my highest level. The US Open victory last year has been the high point of my career thus far and I will miss not being there,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;However, I realize that the unforeseen challenges, including the COVID pandemic, have compromised my ability to prepare and compete to the degree necessary to play at my highest level. I want to express my appreciation to the USTA and the WTA for all of their efforts in making the event happen. I look forward to joining my competitors back on court soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian won the 2019 US Open by defeating Serena Williams in the women&#8217;s singles final.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 U.S. Open will take place without fans Aug. 31 to Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA Defending Grand Slam champion Bianca Andreescu pulled out of the US Open on Thursday because she said the coronavirus compromised her form. &#8221;I have taken this step in order to focus on my match fitness and ensure that I return ready to play at my highest level. The US Open victory last year has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16207,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205\/revisions\/16207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}