{"id":148584,"date":"2011-12-14T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=148584"},"modified":"2011-12-14T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T11:35:08","slug":"serena-williams-unsuccessful-attempt-to-replicate-roger-federer-famous-trick-shot-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/12\/14\/serena-williams-unsuccessful-attempt-to-replicate-roger-federer-famous-trick-shot-videos.html","title":{"rendered":"Serena Williams&#8217; Unsuccessful Attempt to Replicate Roger Federer Famous Trick Shot (VIDEOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Athletes are still haunted by the famous &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Tell\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>William Tell<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>&#8221; trick shot by Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, who pulled off the stunt during a commercial shoot over a year ago, twice nailing a metal bottle off of another man&#8217;s head with a powerful serve.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to conduct a similar experiment, former world no. 1 tennis player Serena Williams tweeted a video of her trying to hit a bottle off her partner Sasha&#8217;s head \u2014 which gets him in the stomach instead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-GWvVR3zaDw?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do u guys need to laugh? Watch my practice today!&#8221; the good sport <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/serenawilliams\/status\/145636336123129858\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">tweeted<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> on Dec. 11.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Serena.Williams.tweet_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-148587 aligncenter\" title=\"Serena.Williams.tweet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Serena.Williams.tweet_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Serena.Williams.tweet_.jpg 400w, https:\/\/epress.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Serena.Williams.tweet_-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for the Federer stunt (in the video below), though some may believe it was fake, none of those present at the shoot have confirmed or denied its truthfulness, reports Newsru.com.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah. Well, there&#8217;s a lot of debate at the moment, you know,&#8221; <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/straightsets.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/19\/federer-coy-on-trick-shot-video\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nyt%2Frss%2FSports+%28NYT+%3E+Sports%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Federer said last August<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>. &#8220;You know how it is with magicians. They don&#8217;t tell how their tricks work, you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cTl3U6aSd2w?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletes are still haunted by the famous &#8220;William Tell&#8221; trick shot by Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, who pulled off the stunt during a&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[35860,35861,15528,35862],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}