{"id":4269,"date":"2011-08-18T14:57:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T04:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2011-08-18T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T04:57:24","slug":"determined-to-make-it-to-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2011\/08\/18\/determined-to-make-it-to-the-top","title":{"rendered":"Determined to make it to the top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She might only be 11, but Peta Valos <strong>h<\/strong>opes to one day be the best female tennis player in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Despite only picking up a racquet three years ago, Peta is now ranked No. 7 in Australia and No.2 in Victoria for her birth year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to be No.1 in the world,\u201d said Valos of her vision for the future.<\/p>\n<p>Peta decided to start playing tennis after regularly watching her sister Katerina play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe used to come along and watch Katerina from the sidelines,\u201d said Angela Valos, Peta\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom that she developed an interest and it helped spur her on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peta describes herself as an aggressive baseliner whose favourite shot is her forehand. A member of Tennis Victoria\u2019s State Academy, she currently trains 4-5 times a week, plays A Grade 1 club tennis for Essendon Tennis Club and Grade 5 Pennant for Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club.<\/p>\n<p>About a year ago Peta made the choice to give up other extracurricular activities such as singing and dancing to focus her energy solely on tennis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe made a choice at a point in time to go with tennis. She seeks enjoyment out of it more than anything else,\u201d said Angela.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe enjoys it a lot, has a great attitude and is very mature beyond her years in how she presents on the court and how she deals with difficult situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe enjoy watching her strive physically and we support her wholeheartedly in every aspect of what she wants to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Peta made the finals of the 12\/u singles at the CORE Frankston Junior Masters and won the 12\/u doubles at the same event with Jessica Zaviacic.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Arnott, Tennis Victoria\u2019s Player Development Coordinator said Peta brings a fantastic attitude to training every week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe works hard to develop her game with her private coach and with the State Academy Victoria to achieve her goals. She has a very bright future in the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She might only be 11, but Peta Valos hopes to one day be the best female tennis player in the world. Despite only picking up a racquet three years ago, Peta is now ranked No. 7 in Australia and No.2 in Victoria for her birth year. \u201cI want to be No.1 in the world,\u201d said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":4270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4269","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\/4269","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\/5907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}