{"id":9665,"date":"2014-12-04T10:22:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T02:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=9665"},"modified":"2014-12-04T10:22:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T02:22:55","slug":"west-aussie-in-focus-maddison-inglis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2014\/12\/04\/west-aussie-in-focus-maddison-inglis","title":{"rendered":"West Aussie in Focus: Maddison Inglis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2014\/12\/Maddison-Inglis-700x450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2014\/12\/Maddison-Inglis-700x450.jpg\" alt=\"Maddison-Inglis-700x450\" width=\"410\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reigning 18\/u Australian Championships titleholder Maddison Inglis returns to Melbourne Park to defend her crown as the December Showdown kicks off this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The quiet, unassuming Inglis has a calm exterior on the court, masking an intense competitor who can step it up and crunch her groundstrokes.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-and-under national champion in December 2013 represented Australia in Junior Fed Cup this year and won matches at Pro Tour events in her home state at Perth and Margaret River, reaching the quarterfinals at the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Currently with a WTA ranking 809th, Inglis is aiming to contest junior Grand Slam events in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>She is the highest-ranked player in the 18\/u Australian Championships girls\u2019 field this year.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;<a title=\"Maddison Inglis Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/player-profiles\/maddison-inglis\" target=\"_blank\"> view Maddison Inglis\u2019 player profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more about Inglis and other emerging Aussie talents in the December <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennismag.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cSummer Special\u201d of Australian Tennis Magazine.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best of luck to Maddison this weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning 18\/u Australian Championships titleholder Maddison Inglis returns to Melbourne Park to defend her crown as the December Showdown kicks off this weekend. The quiet, unassuming Inglis has a calm exterior on the court, masking an intense competitor who can step it up and crunch her groundstrokes. The 18-and-under national champion in December 2013 represented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665","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\/5812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}