{"id":5127,"date":"2012-12-19T11:32:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T03:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5127"},"modified":"2012-12-19T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T03:32:59","slug":"barty-to-play-hyundai-hopman-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2012\/12\/19\/barty-to-play-hyundai-hopman-cup","title":{"rendered":"Barty to play Hyundai Hopman Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2012\/12\/19\/barty-to-play-hyundai-hopman-cup\/attachment\/barty-460x306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5128\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5128 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2012\/12\/Barty-460x306-410x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teen sensation <strong>Ashleigh Barty<\/strong> is set to make her Hyundai Hopman Cup debut following the withdrawal this week of <strong>Casey Dellacqua<\/strong> due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>The promising 16-year-old and 2011 Wimbledon Junior champion will pair with <strong>Bernard Tomic<\/strong> to represent Australia in the mixed teams event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted Ash has confirmed for Hyundai Hopman Cup,\u201d Event Director <strong>Steve Ayles<\/strong> said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s one of the most promising girls in her age group and is already making a successful transition from juniors to the Pro Tour, this year winning four singles and four doubles titles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAsh and Bernard are definitely two of the most talented players in their generation. Ash is one of the youngest ranked players in the WTA at 175, an amazing achievement at just 16, and Bernard is the youngest player in the top 100.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a great opportunity for the people of Perth to see these two players as their careers are just beginning to blossom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to playing the Hyundai Hopman Cup,\u201d Ashleigh Barty said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be an incredible experience to compete against some of the world\u2019s best players and will be an amazing start to the summer for me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve learnt so much this year and I think my game has matured a lot. I\u2019ve played more professional events this year and Hopman Cup is going to be a real opportunity to play against the top players. I can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new Perth Arena is amazing and it\u2019s going to be really special to be a part of the first Hopman Cup to be held there.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are on sale now through <a title=\"Ticketek\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketek.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">ticketek.com.au<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teen sensation Ashleigh Barty is set to make her Hyundai Hopman Cup debut following the withdrawal this week of Casey Dellacqua due to injury. The promising 16-year-old and 2011 Wimbledon Junior champion will pair with Bernard Tomic to represent Australia in the mixed teams event. \u201cWe are delighted Ash has confirmed for Hyundai Hopman Cup,\u201d [&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-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127","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=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}