{"id":17558,"date":"2017-08-01T15:27:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T05:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=17558"},"modified":"2017-08-01T17:53:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T07:53:57","slug":"meet-the-staff-melissa-stojanovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2017\/08\/01\/meet-the-staff-melissa-stojanovic","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Staff &#8211; Melissa Stojanovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Mel Stojanovic<\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> Participation Leader- Metro West<\/p>\n<p><strong>Role:<\/strong> My role as participation leader is to support local clubs, coaches and associations to grow our sport.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best thing about the role:<\/strong> The best thing about the role is being out and about meeting our volunteers and coaches, building relationships and having a small part in growing the sport.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous employment:<\/strong> My previous role was at Tennis Australia in Membership and Participation Services team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How long have you been at\u00a0TV:<\/strong> Almost 2 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your interests outside of\u00a0TV:<\/strong>\u00a0It sounds so clich\u00e9 &#8230; travelling! I go back home to Europe every year, to visit the family. I also enjoy eating!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favourite tennis player\/sporting athlete\u00a0and why:<\/strong> My favourite athlete would have to be Novak Djokovic. Hands down, GREATEST OF ALL TIME.\u00a0 Apart from being an amazing tennis player. I would have to say I love him more for what he does off the court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you could travel anywhere in the world, where and why:<\/strong>\u00a0My favourite place on this planet is a small village in a mountain in the south of Serbia. A close second is Prague- the architecture, the history, the culture, the people, the night life, everything about Prague is amazing. I would love to go back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What superhero power would you\u00a0like:<\/strong>\u00a0Teleportation, I would save so much on travel costs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is one interesting fact about\u00a0you:<\/strong> When I was about 8, I asked my parents if I could be in commercials (looked really fun). They took me to my first (and last) audition. I was terrible. Pretending to climb a fake ladder and decorate a fake Christmas tree was not as fun as it looked.<\/p>\n<p>Very few people know about that\u2026 until now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you could change one thing about Melbourne, what would it\u00a0be:<\/strong>\u00a0Traffic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this month&#8217;s Meet the Staff we chat with Melissa Stojanovic, Participation Leader (Metro West). Read on to see where her career could have gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6038,"featured_media":17559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17558","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\/17558","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\/6038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}