{"id":7490,"date":"2012-08-15T11:16:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T01:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2012-08-15T11:16:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T01:16:28","slug":"jessie-mount-climbs-the-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/news\/2012\/08\/15\/jessie-mount-climbs-the-rankings","title":{"rendered":"Jessie Mount climbs the rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessie Mount <strong>(East Brighton)<\/strong> has only been playing tennis for four years, but that hasn\u2019t stopped the 14-year-old from becoming one of the best in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Currently ranked third in Victoria for the 1998 birth year, Mount has some notable results to her name, and has her sights set on bigger achievements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to win an under 14s gold [level] tournament,\u201d said Mount.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been improving a lot lately. I\u2019ve won a few tournaments \u2026 hopefully I\u2019ll have a good chance.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She won the 2012 Tennis World Queen\u2019s Birthday OJT 16s singles event in June, an impressive effort considering she was only 13 at the time.<\/p>\n<p>She also reached the round of 16 at the 2012 Team Tennis Summer AMT Series #1 and made the final of the women\u2019s doubles at the 2012 Australian Tennis Magazine AMT White in May. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These results have helped propel her national singles ranking to a career-high 341.<\/p>\n<p>Mount trains six days a week and is part of Tennis Victoria\u2019s Future Stars Program run by Emily Rea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJessie has a fantastic work ethic and application to her tennis,\u201d said Rea, Tennis Victoria\u2019s Player Development Coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is a talented athlete who covers the court exceptionally well and is starting to develop a more aggressive game style, which is helping her challenge the stronger, more experienced players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mount comes from an impressive sporting background; her father Stephen played four seasons for Richmond in the Victorian Football League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knows a lot about the muscles in your body and the mental side of tennis,\u201d said Mount.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe really helps me with my preparation and dealing with nerves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mount is now looking towards improving her ranking and join a college in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLong-term I would definitely like to be a professional and play on the circuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would also love to get into a college and get into the circuit from there. I would love to be travelling and playing tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessie Mount (East Brighton) has only been playing tennis for four years, but that hasn\u2019t stopped the 14-year-old from becoming one of the best in Victoria. Currently ranked third in Victoria for the 1998 birth year, Mount has some notable results to her name, and has her sights set on bigger achievements. \u201cI would love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5907,"featured_media":7492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7490","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\/7490","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=7490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/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=7490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/vic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}