{"id":5139,"date":"2012-12-31T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T01:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5139"},"modified":"2012-12-31T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T01:54:22","slug":"unheralded-bobusic-keeps-on-surprising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2012\/12\/31\/unheralded-bobusic-keeps-on-surprising","title":{"rendered":"Unheralded Bobusic keeps on surprising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2012\/12\/31\/unheralded-bobusic-keeps-on-surprising\/attachment\/bobusic-brisbane-460x306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5140\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2012\/12\/Bobusic-Brisbane-460x306-410x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meet Australia\u2019s form female tennis player \u2013 25-year-old Perth late-bloomer Bojana Bobusic.<\/p>\n<p>Super-fit Bobusic, ranked No.334 in the world, racked up her eighth straight victory of the Australian summer on Sunday with a tense three-set Brisbane International qualifying upset over lanky Czech Krystina Pliskova.<\/p>\n<p>Despite requiring a wildcard into qualifying in Brisbane, she\u2019ll now play Frenchwoman Alize Cornet in the first round where the winner\u2019s prize will be a meeting with Serena Williams.<\/p>\n<p>But for all that, the Belgrade-born and Perth-raised University of California sociology graduate skips into the main draw with a mountain of belief.<\/p>\n<p>The unheralded Bobusic already has a surprise spot in the Australian Open in two weeks thanks to her Open wildcard play-off victory this month, winning five straight matches at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gained a bit of confidence there (in Melbourne),\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m just playing each match at a time, but things are coming together well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bobusic\u2019s 6-4 4-6 6-4 win over world No.104 Pliskova was her third straight three-set qualifying win in the Brisbane heat, helping her join Samantha Stosur, Jarmila Gajdosova and Olivia Rogowska in the 30-strong main draw.<\/p>\n<p>Looking lean and hungry after overcoming a problematic foot injury, Bobusic scampered around the court like a greyhound and gave the lanky Czech few easy points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually really enjoy playing in the heat and humidity,\u201d she said. \u201cFor me it\u2019s a bit of an advantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s nice to know physically I\u2019m in shape that I can last three matches and three sets each.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking at this as the start of something new \u2013 it\u2019s 2013.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Australia\u2019s form female tennis player \u2013 25-year-old Perth late-bloomer Bojana Bobusic. Super-fit Bobusic, ranked No.334 in the world, racked up her eighth straight victory of the Australian summer on Sunday with a tense three-set Brisbane International qualifying upset over lanky Czech Krystina Pliskova. Despite requiring a wildcard into qualifying in Brisbane, she\u2019ll now play [&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-5139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139","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=5139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}