{"id":323,"date":"2013-01-05T21:47:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T02:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/?p=323"},"modified":"2013-01-05T21:47:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T02:47:34","slug":"pedicure-sidelines-top-ranked-tennis-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/2013\/01\/05\/pedicure-sidelines-top-ranked-tennis-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedicure sidelines top ranked tennis player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-325\" alt=\"victoriaazarenka\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/01\/victoriaazarenka.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/01\/victoriaazarenka.jpg 594w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/files\/2013\/01\/victoriaazarenka-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I will be the first to admit I know little about tennis. However, I can imagine having your doctor remove a nail from your toe is not exactly a fun experience.<\/p>\n<p>That is exactly what happened to Victoria Azarenka, 23, following a pedicure gone bad.<\/p>\n<p>After playing in her first two matches in the Brisbane International, Azarenka withdrew from her semi-finale match against Serena Williams 30 minutes before the scheduled start time.<\/p>\n<p>Azarenka had quite a 2012 winning the Australian Open and a gold medal in mixed doubles at the London Olympics. She also claimed a bronze in single competition and had become the world&#8217;s top-ranked player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It just got infected from a bad pedicure experience,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/2013\/jan\/04\/victoria-azarenka-australian-open\" target=\"1\">Azarenka said<\/a>. &#8220;They cut a little bit too much and it got infected. The doctor said it happens a lot. It&#8217;s never happened to me before, so it&#8217;s something that I am definitely going to prevent for the next time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be the first to admit I know little about tennis. However, I can imagine having your doctor remove a nail from your toe is not exactly a fun experience. That is exactly what happened to Victoria Azarenka, 23, following a pedicure gone bad. After playing in her first two matches in the Brisbane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3],"class_list":{"0":"post-323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-back-page-featured","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/backpage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}