{"id":8359,"date":"2014-02-07T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T03:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=8359"},"modified":"2014-02-07T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T03:38:05","slug":"fed-cup-draw-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2014\/02\/07\/fed-cup-draw-announced","title":{"rendered":"Fed Cup draw announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8360\" alt=\"Stosur_03-700x450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2014\/02\/Stosur_03-700x450-410x263.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sam Stosur\u2019s first rubber in Australia\u2019s Fed Cup campaign will be against Russia\u2019s 16-year-old world No.650 Veronika Kudermetova.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians have pulled a surprise by naming their youngest squad member to play singles, along with world No.241 Irina Khromacheva.<\/p>\n<p>Casey Dellacqua is Australia\u2019s other singles player and will team with Ashleigh Barty in the doubles at Hobart\u2019s Domain Tennis Centre this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The top-ranked player in a Russian squad missing the country\u2019s 13 highest ranked players, world No.158 Victoria Kan, will play doubles.<\/p>\n<p>Her partner will be Valeria Solovyeva, who Dellacqua beat at Wimbledon last year.<\/p>\n<p>World No.16 Stosur admits she knows nothing about schoolgirl Kudermetova\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess that\u2019s the thing about being in a team, you can pick and choose who you want to play where and on what day almost,\u201d Stosur told reporters in Hobart on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve still got to go into the match absolutely focused and go out there and be more concerned about what I want to do \u2026 and try and pick some things up as the match goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dellacqua\u2019s rubber against Khromacheva will open the tie on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has won the past three ties between the countries, with Australia\u2019s last win against the USSR back in 1983.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Stosur\u2019s first rubber in Australia\u2019s Fed Cup campaign will be against Russia\u2019s 16-year-old world No.650 Veronika Kudermetova. The Russians have pulled a surprise by naming their youngest squad member to play singles, along with world No.241 Irina Khromacheva. Casey Dellacqua is Australia\u2019s other singles player and will team with Ashleigh Barty in the doubles [&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-8359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359","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=8359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}