{"id":102389,"date":"2022-09-03T06:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T06:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/serena-williams-final-u-s-open-notable-black-fans-turn-out-to-bid-the-goat-farewell"},"modified":"2022-09-03T06:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T06:30:12","slug":"serena-williams-final-u-s-open-notable-black-fans-turn-out-to-bid-the-goat-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/serena-williams-final-u-s-open-notable-black-fans-turn-out-to-bid-the-goat-farewell","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams&#8217; Final U.S. Open: Notable Black Fans Turn Out To Bid The GOAT Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Robert Prange \/ Getty UPDATED: 2:30 a.m. ET, Sept. 3 Originally published on Aug. 29 S erena Williams &#8216; run at the U.S. Open came to an end on Friday night, and with it may come her immediate retirement. It took Ajla Tomljanovic of Australia three grueling sets to finally fend off Williams in the tournament&#8217;s third round at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the Queens borough of New York City. Congrats on an amazing career, @SerenaWilliams ! How lucky were we to be able to watch a young girl from Compton grow up to become one of the greatest athletes of all time. I&#8217;m proud of you, my friend&#8212;and I can&#8217;t wait to see the lives you continue to transform with your talents. pic.twitter.com\/VWONEMAwz3 &#8212; Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) September 3, 2022 Williams&#8217; loss came in spite of a packed crowd that was overwhelmingly cheering for the woman widely regarded as the greatest tennis player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of notable Black people came out in force to show love for Serena Williams in her final U.S. Open ahead of her retirement from professional tennis. The post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,124],"tags":[202,11,58,71],"class_list":["post-102389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nfl","tag-mlb","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}