{"id":8963,"date":"2014-06-05T12:39:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T04:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=8963"},"modified":"2014-06-05T12:39:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T04:39:32","slug":"australia-to-face-germany-in-fed-cup-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2014\/06\/05\/australia-to-face-germany-in-fed-cup-first-round","title":{"rendered":"Australia to Face Germany in Fed Cup First Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8965\" alt=\"Fed-Cup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2014\/06\/Fed-Cup.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Australia faces a tough first round tie against Germany in the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group first round in February 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Aussie team will face the strong German team, finalists in the elite competition this year, away in Germany just a week after the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Fed Cup captain Alicia Molik isn\u2019t fazed by the tough competition, instead relishing the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to play Germany again and hopefully get some revenge,\u201d Molik said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like we were so close in the last tie (semifinal in Brisbane in April) and this is another opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve enjoyed success playing Germany in Germany in the past, so we\u2019ll go out and play our best and hope we can cause an upset again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are a strong team and very deserving of their position in the final this year, and I know our team will enjoy the challenge of stepping up and playing one of the strongest nations in tennis right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Australia and Germany have met 13 times in Fed Cup, with Australia holding an 8-5 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent meeting was the semifinal held at Pat Rafter Arena in Brisbane in April this year, which Australia lost 3-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia faces a tough first round tie against Germany in the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group first round in February 2015. The Aussie team will face the strong German team, finalists in the elite competition this year, away in Germany just a week after the Australian Open. Australia\u2019s Fed Cup captain Alicia Molik [&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-8963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963","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=8963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}