{"id":3829,"date":"2012-02-07T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T03:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=3829"},"modified":"2012-02-07T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T03:35:08","slug":"junior-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2012\/02\/07\/junior-spotlight","title":{"rendered":"JUNIOR SPOTLIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Vuk Velickovic<\/p>\n<p><strong>D.O.B:<\/strong> 26\/08\/1995<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen year old <strong>Vuk Velickovic<\/strong> is starting to make a name for himself throughout the Western Australian community. The Serbian born youngster began tennis when he was just 3 years of age and started competing at the tender age of six. Here Vuk was ranked the highest Serbian player for his age group before shifting to Australia at age 9.<\/p>\n<p>Velickovic is currently ranked number one in the state and number 8 throughout Australia for his age group (1995). Transitioning over to the Men\u2019s Circuit Velickovic has had some promising results including reaching the Quarterfinals of the State Tennis Centre AMT and finishing 5<sup>th<\/sup> in the boys 16\u2019s Nationals which has helped to improve his climbing ranking.<\/p>\n<p>On top of competing at various junior and open tournaments throughout the nation, Velickovic also battles it out for interclub glory \u2013 competing in pennants for <strong>UWA TC<\/strong> and also contended the inaugural National Tennis League representing <strong>\u2018Macstiobhard\u2019 Blue Gum Park TC. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No one can question Vuk\u2019s dedication, commitment and love for the great game with the teenager hoping to extend his tennis career hype, considering a move to an American College to be exposed to the incredible facilities and opportunity the state\u2019s has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>A healthy balance is however very important to Vuk; who is currently harmonizing his tennis commitments, year 12 studies, playing soccer and basketball while keeping his social life in check.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime however, the young tennis star will shift to Canning College to allow a more flexible timetable in the hope to elevate his tennis training to 3 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>With fellow Serbian <strong>Novak Djokovic<\/strong> taking out the Australian Open just last month, Velickovic is looking forward to the challenge of following in Djokovic\u2019s footsteps in not only claiming the Australian Open title but the number one status as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Vuk Velickovic D.O.B: 26\/08\/1995 Sixteen year old Vuk Velickovic is starting to make a name for himself throughout the Western Australian community. The Serbian born youngster began tennis when he was just 3 years of age and started competing at the tender age of six. Here Vuk was ranked the highest Serbian player for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":3830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3829","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\/3829","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=3829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3829\/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=3829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}