{"id":5072,"date":"2012-12-18T07:28:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T23:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2012-12-18T07:28:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T23:28:47","slug":"dellacqua-withdraws-from-hopman-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2012\/12\/18\/dellacqua-withdraws-from-hopman-cup","title":{"rendered":"Dellacqua withdraws from Hopman Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2012\/12\/18\/dellacqua-withdraws-from-hopman-cup\/attachment\/dellacqua-uso-460x306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5073\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5073\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2012\/12\/Dellacqua-USO-460x306-410x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Local favourite Casey Dellacqua has been forced to withdraw from the Hyundai Hopman Cup due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>The West Australian native was looking forward to playing in front of her home crowd, but a foot injury the former top 40 player picked up in Osaka in October proved to be her downfall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo disappointed to withdraw from Hopman Cup due to a foot injury sustained in Osaka,\u201d said Dellacqua.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a Peroneal Brevis tear and although it\u2019s getting better every day it\u2019s not going to be ready in time for Perth and I can\u2019t rush my return to competition. I really hope I can try and play in Hobart if I\u2019m ready and if I get a wildcard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always love playing at Hopman Cup, the people of Perth always get behind me and it\u2019s a great feeling to have so much support. I was also really looking forward to being part of history and playing at the new Perth Arena. Hopefully I have the chance to come back next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dellacqua was due to team with Australia\u2019s Bernard Tomic in the December 29 to 5 January event. A replacement for Dellacqua will be announced shortly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so disappointed for Casey that she\u2019s had to withdraw from the Hyundai Hopman Cup and wish her all the very best for a speedy recovery,\u201d said Tournament Director Steve Ayles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know how much playing this event means to her and how much she loves playing in front of her home crowd in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCasey is concentrating hard on her rehab and is looking forward to playing again very soon.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure everyone will join the Hopman Cup team in wishing her all the best for her Australian Open preparation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the tournament just days from beginning, excitement is mounting as Perth prepares for a host of the world\u2019s best and favourite players including No.1 Novak Djokovic, Ana Ivanovic, Tommy Haas, Andrea Petkovic, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Fernando Verdasco and Venus Williams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local favourite Casey Dellacqua has been forced to withdraw from the Hyundai Hopman Cup due to injury. The West Australian native was looking forward to playing in front of her home crowd, but a foot injury the former top 40 player picked up in Osaka in October proved to be her downfall. \u201cSo disappointed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072","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=5072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}