{"id":3685,"date":"2012-01-15T15:45:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T07:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2012-01-15T15:45:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T07:45:20","slug":"australian-open-set-to-sizzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2012\/01\/15\/australian-open-set-to-sizzle","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open set to sizzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Open is set to sizzle with 7 Aussies due to set battle on day one of play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Casey Dellacqua<\/strong> will be the sole sandgroper on the 1st day of play\u00a0with <strong>Bojana Bobusic<\/strong> and <strong>Matt Ebden<\/strong> launching their Open campaign on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dellacqua\u00a0is up first on Margaret Court Arena\u00a0where she&#8217;ll meet\u00a0Serbian born <strong>Bojana Jovanovski.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other Australian&#8217;s in action include Kooyong International champion <strong>Bernard Tomic\u00a0<\/strong>taking on\u00a0popular Spanish star, Fernando <strong>Verdasco.<\/strong> A diffiult first round for both inform players, with Tomic taking some confidence from his win at Kooyong this morning. &#8220;To have those matches under my belt, to win them all is great. I know I played them all in three sets. It\u2019s better to win in three. I played long matches, longer hours,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anastasia Rodionova<\/strong> will face off against World Number 1 <strong>Caroline Wozniacki; Greg Jones<\/strong> against <strong>Alexandr Dolgopolov<\/strong>; pocket rocket <strong>Ashleigh Barty<\/strong> will verse <strong>Anna Tatishvili<\/strong>; <strong>Ben Mitchell<\/strong> against big man, <strong>John Isner<\/strong>; and finaly <strong>Olivia Rogowska<\/strong> against <strong>Sofia Arvidsson.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Open is set to sizzle with 7 Aussies due to set battle on day one of play. Casey Dellacqua will be the sole sandgroper on the 1st day of play\u00a0with Bojana Bobusic and Matt Ebden launching their Open campaign on Tuesday. Dellacqua\u00a0is up first on Margaret Court Arena\u00a0where she&#8217;ll meet\u00a0Serbian born Bojana Jovanovski. Other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":3686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3685","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\/3685","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=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/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=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}