{"id":437295,"date":"2011-06-07T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T07:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/07\/serena-set-for-eastbourne-return\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T07:30:11","slug":"serena-set-for-eastbourne-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/serena-set-for-eastbourne-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena set for Eastbourne return"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"66.7451442025\">\n<div readability=\"63.7279040404\">\n<div>\n<h2>Aegon International<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Venue:<\/em> Devonshire Park, Eastbourne<\/li>\n<li><em>Date:<\/em> 11-18 June<\/li>\n<li><em>Coverage:<\/em> Reports on BBC Sport website<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/53277000\/jpg\/_53277630_53277629.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Serena Williams\" \/> Serena will be hoping to win a fifth Wimbledon title next month<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Serena Williams has confirmed she will return to action at next week&#8217;s Aegon International event in Eastbourne.<\/p>\n<p>The American, 29, has not played since beating Vera Zvonareva in last year&#8217;s Wimbledon final.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after winning that event, she cut her foot on broken glass then needed treatment for a blood clot in her lung.<\/p>\n<p>Also among the field for the Wimbledon warm-up are Serena&#8217;s sister Venus and French Open champion Li Na.<\/p>\n<p>Venus has not played since retiring in her third-round match at January&#8217;s Australian Open with an abdominal injury.<\/p>\n<p>Serena&#8217;s problems started when she cut her foot in Germany shortly after claiming her fourth Wimbledon title.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Serena Williams<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/tennis\/13678582.stm#skip_feature_02\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winner of 13 Grand Slam singles titles<\/li>\n<li>Currently ranked 25th in the world but is a former world number one<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>She played in an exhibition match in Belgium against Kim Clijsters days later but had the first of two operations on the injury when she returned to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The second surgery was in October, followed by 10 weeks in a cast and 10 weeks in a walking boot.<\/p>\n<p>In February, she was diagnosed with the blood clot and also needed treatment for a gathering of blood under the skin on her stomach<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so excited to be healthy enough to compete again,&#8221; she said. &#8220;These past 12 months have been extremely tough and character building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>Serena outpowers Zvonareva in 2010 Wimbledon final (UK only)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Excerpt from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/sport1\/hi\/tennis\/13678582.stm\" title=\"Serena set for Eastbourne return\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Serena set for Eastbourne return<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Aegon International Venue: Devonshire Park, Eastbourne Date: 11-18 June Coverage: Reports on BBC Sport website Serena will be hoping to win a fifth Wimbledon title next month Serena Williams has confirmed she will return to action at next week&#8217;s Aegon International event in Eastbourne. The American, 29, has not played since beating Vera Zvonareva in last year&#8217;s Wimbledon final<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Serena set for Eastbourne return - Ghanamma.com<\/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:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/serena-set-for-eastbourne-return\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Serena set for Eastbourne return - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Aegon International Venue: Devonshire Park, Eastbourne Date: 11-18 June Coverage: Reports on BBC Sport website Serena will be hoping to win a fifth Wimbledon title next month Serena Williams has confirmed she will return to action at next week&#039;s Aegon International event in Eastbourne. 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