{"id":5400,"date":"2013-01-21T08:05:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T00:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2013-01-21T08:05:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T00:05:35","slug":"alicia-molik-steps-up-for-fed-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/01\/21\/alicia-molik-steps-up-for-fed-cup","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Molik steps up for Fed Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/01\/21\/alicia-molik-steps-up-for-fed-cup\/attachment\/molikfedcup-460x306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5401\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5401\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/01\/MolikFedCup-460x306-410x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Former World Number eight Alicia Molik is Australia\u2019s new Fed Cup Captain.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The two-time Grand Slam doubles champion (Australian Open 2005 and French Open 2007) and Athens Olympic bronze medallist will replace the successful Dave Taylor at the helm of the national team.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor has chosen to focus solely on his coaching role with Sam Stosur, ending a seven year reign having lifted the Australians into World Group 1 \u2013 the top eight teams.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis Australia Head of Professional Tennis Todd Woodbridge announced the appointment today and said Molik was perfect for the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlicia has a wealth of experience at the top level and in Fed Cup and will be a great leader for this team,\u201d said Woodbridge who will act in a mentoring capacity for the new captain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlicia\u2019s strong and recent involvement with the tour and Fed Cup give her a great perspective for the captaincy and her personality and leadership style will be an asset for the team,\u201d Woodbridge explained.<\/p>\n<p>Molik is delighted with the appointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDave has left big shoes to fill and I am really inspired by the challenge. It is an exciting time in Australian tennis and we have the talent in this team to produce some great results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first result she will be after is against the reigning champions Czech Republic on their home court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course we go in underdogs, but undaunted. These girls showed against Germany in Germany last year that they are capable of playing wonderful tennis and winning ties that no one expects them to win,\u201d Molik said.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole Bradtke will remain as the Fed Cup coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am fortunate to be able to come into the position while being able to work with both Nicole and Todd. I can\u2019t wait for our first training session,\u201d Molik said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former World Number eight Alicia Molik is Australia\u2019s new Fed Cup Captain. The two-time Grand Slam doubles champion (Australian Open 2005 and French Open 2007) and Athens Olympic bronze medallist will replace the successful Dave Taylor at the helm of the national team. Taylor has chosen to focus solely on his coaching role with Sam [&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-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","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=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}