{"id":12052,"date":"2016-08-22T08:38:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T22:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/?p=12052"},"modified":"2016-08-22T08:38:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T22:38:55","slug":"perez-wins-us-open-wildcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/news\/2016\/08\/22\/perez-wins-us-open-wildcard","title":{"rendered":"Perez wins US Open wildcard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New South Wales&#8217;s\u00a0Ellen Perez has completed a dream weekend in Bradenton to win Australia\u2019s\u00a0women\u2019s\u00a0US Open wildcard play-off.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old upset No.2 seed Ash Barty 6-4 6-3 to secure her place in the main draw at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>The win came a day after Perez brushed aside top seed Arina Rodionova to take her place in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Perez on Friday beat Naiktha Bains, giving her three wins in three days at the IMG Academy, and a Grand Slam main draw debut.<\/p>\n<p>The left-hander, from Wollongong, currently plays for Georgia University in the US college system.<\/p>\n<p>She came into the play-off in good form; on a recent ITF tournament swing\u00a0through\u00a0Europe, she won an ITF title in Brussels as a qualifier,\u00a0and also reached another final and semifinal, to build a win-loss record of 19-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New South Wales&#8217;s\u00a0Ellen Perez has completed a dream weekend in Bradenton to win Australia\u2019s\u00a0women\u2019s\u00a0US Open wildcard play-off. The 20-year-old upset No.2 seed Ash Barty 6-4 6-3 to secure her place in the main draw at Flushing Meadows. The win came a day after Perez brushed aside top seed Arina Rodionova to take her place in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5788,"featured_media":12054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}