{"id":14858,"date":"2016-01-09T10:32:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T23:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=14858"},"modified":"2016-01-09T10:35:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T23:35:10","slug":"zoe-hives-wins-through-to-the-2nd-round-of-qualifying-in-hobart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2016\/01\/09\/zoe-hives-wins-through-to-the-2nd-round-of-qualifying-in-hobart","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Hives wins through to the 2nd round of qualifying in Hobart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian\u00a0wildcard Zoe Hives scored the biggest win of her young career today.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old upset Spanish veteran and seventh seed Lourdes Dominguez Lino in their first round qualifying match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so excited, I can\u2019t believe it,\u201d the world No.504 gushed as she walked off court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe got a lot of balls back, she was a tough opponent. I got a bit lucky on a few shots I think, but I\u2019m just happy to get across the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hives battled out a 7-6(2) 7-6(6) victory in just under two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in just her second WTA Tour-level match, Hives admitted nerves got the better of her when she served for the match at 5-4 in the second set.<\/p>\n<p>When Dominguez Lino edged ahead in the second set tiebreak, Hives stepped up her aggressive game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just kept thinking \u2018relax, relax\u2019 because I got a bit tight at 5-4,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Hives now faces Spain\u2019s Laura Pous-Tio, a straight set winner against Poland\u2019s Katarzyna Piter, in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you to the Hobart International for allowing the repost of this story<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe Hives through to R2 of Hobart International qualifier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5595,"featured_media":14859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}