{"id":5670,"date":"2013-02-27T11:48:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T03:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2013-02-27T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T03:48:08","slug":"switzerland-to-host-australia-in-fed-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/02\/27\/switzerland-to-host-australia-in-fed-cup","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland to host Australia in Fed Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/02\/27\/switzerland-to-host-australia-in-fed-cup\/attachment\/aussie-fed-cup-team-460x306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5671\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5671\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/02\/Aussie-Fed-Cup-team-460x306-410x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Switzerland will host Australia on outdoor red clay at Tennis Club Chiasso for the nations\u2019 upcoming Fed Cup World Group Play-off tie in April.<\/p>\n<p>Australia originally had the choice of ground for the tie, but the two nations came to an ITF-approved agreement that will see Switzerland host the tie at Chiasso-Seseglio, in the southern part of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement also sees Australia given the choice of ground for the next two consecutive occasions the nations meet in Fed Cup play.<\/p>\n<p>Swiss captain Heinz Guenthardt was reported on <em>fedcup.com<\/em> as saying that the staging of the tie on European clay in spring made perfect sense for all players involved given the time of year.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the tie on 20-21 April will be elevated to the elite eight-nation World Group in 2014, with the loser relegated to World Group II.<\/p>\n<p>Australia lost its opening round World Group\u00a0tie to the Czech Republic, while the Swiss team upset Belgium in the first round of World Group II.<\/p>\n<p>Australia has won five of its six ties against the Swiss, with Switzerland\u2019s last victory coming back in 1983 in Zurich.<\/p>\n<p>Teams will be nominated as the tie draws nearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland will host Australia on outdoor red clay at Tennis Club Chiasso for the nations\u2019 upcoming Fed Cup World Group Play-off tie in April. Australia originally had the choice of ground for the tie, but the two nations came to an ITF-approved agreement that will see Switzerland host the tie at Chiasso-Seseglio, in the southern [&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-5670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670","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=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}