{"id":7250,"date":"2018-05-22T12:42:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T12:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=7250"},"modified":"2018-05-22T12:42:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T12:42:05","slug":"serena-williams-will-play-at-the-2018-french-open-unseeded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/serena-williams-will-play-at-the-2018-french-open-unseeded\/","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams Will Play At The 2018 French Open Unseeded"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Serena Williams<\/a> is without doubt the face of women\u2019s tennis as her achievements speak for herself. She has won 23 Grand Slam tournaments and was ranked the number one player in the world before she took a break from tennis to give birth to her first child. Serena has since dropped in the rankings and now sits at 453<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Serena is expected to play in her first Grand Slam at the 2018 French Open<\/a> after giving birth to her daughter in September 2017. <\/p>\n

Williams will enter the tournament unseeded after the French Tennis Federation<\/a> (FTF) confirmed that this year\u2019s ranking and list of the women\u2019s seeds will once again be based on the WTA ranking.<\/p>\n

That will automatically result in Serena Williams being unseeded. Given the fact that Williams has won three French Open Championships at Roland Garros, it does seem unfair that she will have to enter unseeded because of her time-off to start a family. There is a possibility that Williams can enter the tournament seeded under a special WTA rule but that would depend on whether the FTF makes an exception for the American.<\/p>\n

The View<\/strong><\/p>\n

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