{"id":22118,"date":"2015-06-10T11:16:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=22118"},"modified":"2015-06-10T11:16:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T11:16:19","slug":"serena-williams-stretching-her-lead-at-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=22118","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams stretching her lead at No.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-15067\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/serena-paris_300.jpg\" alt=\"serena paris 300\" style=\"margin: 3px; float: left;\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/serena-paris_300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/serena-paris_300-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>She&#8217;s been No.1 for a long time, 120 weeks in a row in fact, but Serena Williams is starting to reach new levels of domination &#8211; by virtue of her third straight major at the French Open, the World No.1 now has more than two Grand Slams&#8217; worth of points separating her from current World No.2 Petra Kvitova.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who now has 11,291 ranking points on her total, is 4,421 points ahead of Kvitova, who has 6,870 ranking points on her total. That&#8217;s not only more than two Grand Slams&#8217; worth of points, but that difference alone would get someone to No.6 in the world right now &#8211; Ana Ivanovic, the current No.6 who just reached the semifinals at Roland Garros, has earned 4,305 ranking points the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>This is Williams&#8217; highest ranking points total since the 2014 French Open fortnight over a year ago &#8211; a pretty nice reward after two of the toughest weeks of her career, rallying from a set down four times just to reach the final in Paris, and then going to three sets again against an inspired Lucie Safarova.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\">http:\/\/www.wtatennis.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-15067\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/serena-paris_300.jpg\" alt=\"serena paris 300\" style=\"margin: 3px; float: left;\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/serena-paris_300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/serena-paris_300-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>She&#8217;s been No.1 for a long time, 120 weeks in a row in fact, but Serena Williams is starting to reach new levels of domination &#8211; by virtue of her third straight major at the French Open, the World No.1 now has more than two Grand Slams&#8217; worth of points separating her from current World No.2 Petra Kvitova.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, who now has 11,291 ranking points on her total, is 4,421 points ahead of Kvitova, who has 6,870 ranking points on her total. That&#8217;s not only more than two Grand Slams&#8217; worth of points, but that difference alone would get someone to No.6 in the world right now &#8211; Ana Ivanovic, the current No.6 who just reached the semifinals at Roland Garros, has earned 4,305 ranking points the last 12 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis-tennis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Serena Williams stretching her lead at No.1 - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=22118\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Serena Williams stretching her lead at No.1 - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"She&#039;s been No.1 for a long time, 120 weeks in a row in fact, but Serena Williams is starting to reach new levels of domination - by virtue of her third straight major at the French Open, the World No.1 now has more than two Grand Slams&#039; worth of points separating her from current World No.2 Petra Kvitova. 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