{"id":5709,"date":"2013-03-12T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T03:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2013-03-12T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T03:07:10","slug":"rajicic-wins-first-pro-tour-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/03\/12\/rajicic-wins-first-pro-tour-title","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Moore narrowly misses out on Sydney International Pro Tour title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2013\/03\/12\/rajicic-wins-first-pro-tour-title\/attachment\/jessica-moore-3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5730\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5730\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2013\/03\/jessica-moore2-410x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viktorija Rajicic<\/strong> has claimed her first ITF title with a win at the $10,000 Nature\u2019s Way Sydney International #2 Pro Tour event on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Rajicic, the second seed, defeated top seed Jessica Moore 5-7 6-3 6-2 in the final at Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Although she fought fatigue during the first set, Rajicic recovered to claim victory, something she described as a confidence boost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s my first Pro Tour title, it\u2019s exciting. I played well so it\u2019s always good to finish off with a great match,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been working pretty hard over the last couple of months. I\u2019ve been playing well at a few of the Australian tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdam Molenda has been coaching me over the last week here in Sydney and has helped me a lot. He has made me train before and after every single match and I guess that has pushed me and it has ended up working well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never played Jess before but we watched her play yesterday so the plan was to just attack her forehand and her short balls. I had to play differently today. My forehand is my strength but my backhand really helped me out today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time Rajicic had appeared in a final since the Mildura Pro Tour event in February 2012, where she lost to Ash Barty.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old next plans to contest qualifying at next week\u2019s Ipswich Pro Tour event, and also expects to contest the tournament in Bundaberg.<\/p>\n<p>In late May, she plans to head to Europe to play $25,000k ITF events.<\/p>\n<p>In the doubles final, second seeds Tyra Calderwood and Alison Bai won the title in Sydney over Moore and Anja Dokic 7-6(3) 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Viktorija Rajicic has claimed her first ITF title with a win at the $10,000 Nature\u2019s Way Sydney International #2 Pro Tour event on Sunday. Rajicic, the second seed, defeated top seed Jessica Moore 5-7 6-3 6-2 in the final at Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre. Although she fought fatigue during the first set, Rajicic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":5730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709","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=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}