{"id":9680,"date":"2014-12-16T07:43:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T23:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=9680"},"modified":"2014-12-16T07:43:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T23:43:29","slug":"stellar-fields-set-for-australian-open-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2014\/12\/16\/stellar-fields-set-for-australian-open-2015","title":{"rendered":"Stellar Fields set for Australian Open 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2014\/12\/Serena-Novak-700x450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9681\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2014\/12\/Serena-Novak-700x450.jpg\" alt=\"Serena-Novak-700x450\" width=\"410\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of the world&#8217;s top 100 men and 99 of the top 100 women will give Australian Open 2015 one of the strongest fields in the tournament&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Stellar men\u2019s and women\u2019s fields will descend on Melbourne Park for Australian Open 2015, the year\u2019s first Grand Slam event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of the world\u2019s <strong>top 100 men<\/strong> and <strong>99 of the top 100 women<\/strong> will be here for the Australian Open in January,\u201d Tennis Australia\u2019s CEO Craig Tiley said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the deepest and strongest fields in the history of the tournament. Fans will be thrilled to welcome back some former top ten stars, all returning after some time out of the game with injury. This includes 2009 US Open champion <strong>Juan Martin del Potro<\/strong>, former world No.2 <strong>Vera Zvonareva<\/strong> and dynamic Serbian <strong>Janko Tipsarevic<\/strong> will all be back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith little more than a month to go, our preparations for Australian Open 2015 are well on track and we are looking forward to another fantastic tournament. I\u2019ve spoken with many of the players and they can\u2019t wait to return to Melbourne.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A US Open champion in 2009, del Potro is on the comeback trail from wrist surgery, while former world No.8 Janko Tipsarevic will make a welcome return after a foot injury wiped out his 2014 season.<\/p>\n<p>Also returning are popular American <strong>Bethanie Mattek-Sands<\/strong> and former top 40 star<strong>Romina Oprandi<\/strong>, both using protected rankings to enter the main draw.<\/p>\n<p>The only absentee from the women\u2019s draw is world No.58 <strong>Petra Cetkovska <\/strong>of Czech Republic, who has withdrawn due to a hip injury.<\/p>\n<p>Eight wildcard entrants will be added to both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s draws, along with 16 male qualifiers and 12 female qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s top 32 men and women will also battle it out for a wildcard entry in the Australian Open 2015 Play-off commencing 15 December at Melbourne Park.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Open qualifying rounds will begin Wednesday 14 January, with the main draw commencing on Monday 19 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of the world&#8217;s top 100 men and 99 of the top 100 women will give Australian Open 2015 one of the strongest fields in the tournament&#8217;s history. Stellar men\u2019s and women\u2019s fields will descend on Melbourne Park for Australian Open 2015, the year\u2019s first Grand Slam event. \u201cAll of the world\u2019s top 100 men [&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-9680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680","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=9680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}