{"id":3367,"date":"2011-11-07T12:16:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T04:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2011-11-07T12:16:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T04:16:53","slug":"bojana-bobusic-wins-1st-pro-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2011\/11\/07\/bojana-bobusic-wins-1st-pro-tour","title":{"rendered":"Bojana Bobusic wins 1st Pro Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday South Perth\u2019s <strong>Bojana Bobusic<\/strong> (pictured in Orange) was victorious in collecting her first Pro Tour title at the <strong>City of Mount Gambier Blue Lake International<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Bobusic, the No. 8 seed had to knock off a number of top seeds before claiming her first Pro Tour title by defeating Korean <strong>Sung-Hee Han<\/strong> 6-3 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>After her narrow loss to <strong>Olivia Rogowska<\/strong> in Port Pirie last week, Bobusic capitalised on her top form to take the title effortlessly yesterday. Bobusic did not lose a set on her run to the final.<\/p>\n<p>The first round saw her whistle past <strong>Ashley Keir<\/strong> (ACT) 6-2 6-1. She went on to beat <strong>Karolina Wlodarczak <\/strong>(Vic) 6-4 6-3 before knocking out New Zealander and No. 3 seed <strong>Sacha Jones<\/strong> 6-4 7-5. The semi then saw her defeat, for a second week in a row, No. 2 seed <strong>Isabella Holland <\/strong>(Qld) 6-2 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Though the win hasn\u2019t sunk in for Bobusic, she was thrilled to have won her first Pro Tour title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played well and I\u2019m really happy to get the win,\u201d Bojana Bobusic said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hasn\u2019t really sunk in yet, but coming off last week and not being able to get the win and having made a couple of other finals this year, I\u2019m just really excited and happy I could come away with it today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyra Calderwood<\/strong> (NSW) and <strong>Stephanie Bengson<\/strong> (NSW) took out the women\u2019s doubles title after No. 2 seeds <strong>Sally Peers <\/strong>(Vic) and <strong>Isabella Holland<\/strong> (Qld) withdrew due to injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>City of Mount Gambier Blue Lake International <\/strong>is a part of the 2011 \u2013 2012 Australian Pro Tour, a series of professional tennis events that bridge junior events and the ATP\/WTA Tour, providing an opportunity for players to earn their first world ranking points.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the tournaments, the 2011 \u2013 2012 Australian Pro Tour, Tennis Australia or the players, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/\">www.tennis.com.au<\/a>. For more information on the ITF Pro circuit visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itftennis.com\/\">www.itftennis.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday South Perth\u2019s Bojana Bobusic (pictured in Orange) was victorious in collecting her first Pro Tour title at the City of Mount Gambier Blue Lake International. Bobusic, the No. 8 seed had to knock off a number of top seeds before claiming her first Pro Tour title by defeating Korean Sung-Hee Han 6-3 6-2. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":3369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}