{"id":344,"date":"2004-09-04T00:50:21","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T05:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=344"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:19","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:19","slug":"uberoi_overpowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/04\/uberoi_overpowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Uberoi overpowered by Venus Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"ShikhaUberoi.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/images\/ShikhaUberoi.jpg\" width=\"171\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" align=left hspace=20 \/>\nFollowing up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000324.html\">Anna&#8217;s post<\/a>, Shikha Uberoi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/09\/03\/sports\/tennis\/03tennis.html?ex=1251864000&#038;en=c71538a5d9199e3a&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">lost her second-round U.S. Open match<\/a> to Venus Williams yesterday, 7-5, 6-1, after sprinting to a 4-1 lead in the first set. The match <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/sports\/sfl-bricker04sep04,0,7890823.column?coll=sfla-sports-headlines\">was hard-fought<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Shikha Uberoi of Boca Raton won a lot of new fans with her super-aggressive play against Venus Williams in the second round.. Her coach, Rick Macci, tutored the Williams sisters for four years&#8230;<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>As fellow Palm Beach County players, Uberoi and Williams are acquaintances. On 9\/11, their local airport was in lockdown, so Williams gave Uberoi and her sister Neha a limo ride home. A grateful Uberoi invited Williams in for some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indianexpress.com\/full_story.php?content_id=54453\">home-cooked bhindi<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Shikha invited her to dine with the family. \u00c2\u2018\u00c2\u2018And guess what: she agreed. She loved Indian food, bhindi masala particularly, so we called Mom and asked her to make that.\u00c2\u2019\u00c2\u2019<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Despite having shared bhindi, a near-sacred bond in Punjabi culture equalled only by sharing makhi di roti and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/thehindu\/mp\/2002\/05\/27\/stories\/2002052700950200.htm\">sarson da saag<\/a>, Williams had to take down her young rival at tournament time. All&#8217;s fair in love and tennis.<\/p>\n\n<p>Uberoi is a cousin of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/camping_while_brown.html\">Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on Anna&#8217;s post, Shikha Uberoi lost her second-round U.S. Open match to Venus Williams yesterday, 7-5, 6-1, after sprinting to a 4-1 lead in the first set. The match was hard-fought: Shikha Uberoi of Boca Raton won a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/04\/uberoi_overpowe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}