{"id":40311,"date":"2013-01-16T20:54:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T20:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=40311"},"modified":"2015-09-06T20:58:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T20:58:05","slug":"madison-keys-turned-to-tennis-at-4-when-inspired-by-venus-williams-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=40311","title":{"rendered":"Madison Keys turned to tennis at 4 when inspired by Venus Williams&#8217; dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia \u2013  As a 4-year-old she watched Venus Williams (turned pro: 1994 at age of 13) playing on TV and fell in love with her dress.<\/p>\n<p>So began the tennis career of Madison Keys (Born: Feb 17, 1995 ).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really wanted a tennis dress,&#8221; said Keys, now 17. &#8220;My parents told me that if I played, they would buy me one. I was like, &#8216;Hey, I&#8217;ll try it.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keys now has a closet full of tennis dresses and enough talent to have reached the third round at the Australian Open on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/2013\/01\/16\/rising-american-teen-madison-keys-turned-to-tennis-at-4-when-inspired-by-venus\/\">Read more on Foxnews<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia \u2013 As a 4-year-old she watched Venus Williams (turned pro: 1994 at age of 13) playing on TV and fell in love with her dress. So began the tennis career of Madison Keys (Born: Feb 17, 1995 ). &#8220;I really wanted a tennis dress,&#8221; said Keys, now 17. &#8220;My parents told me that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tennis-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}