{"id":9744,"date":"2015-01-07T09:15:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T01:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=9744"},"modified":"2015-01-07T09:15:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T01:15:58","slug":"matosevic-in-for-ebden-at-hopman-cup-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2015\/01\/07\/matosevic-in-for-ebden-at-hopman-cup-2015","title":{"rendered":"Matosevic in for Ebden at Hopman Cup 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2015\/01\/Matosevic-570x457.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9745\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/files\/2015\/01\/Matosevic-570x457-381x306.jpg\" alt=\"Matosevic-570x457\" width=\"381\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Team Australia will see <strong>Marinko Matosevic<\/strong> (Vic) step in for <strong>Matt Ebden<\/strong> (WA) at Hopman Cup 2015.<\/p>\n<p>27-year-old Ebden sustained a mild calf strain during his match against Poland\u2019s Jerzy Janowicz on Sunday night and has been forced to withdraw from the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m disappointed to withdraw from the Hopman Cup, an event I love so much,\u201d Ebden said today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile my calf has recovered really well it\u2019s probably not match fit to be able to play on Wednesday night. I don\u2019t want to take that risk for the tournament and my health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI plan to be fully recovered by the end of the week and be fit and ready for upcoming tournaments,\u201d added Ebden.<\/p>\n<p>Matosevic will team up with <strong>Casey Dellacqua<\/strong> when they face defending champions France on <strong>Wednesday 7 January at 5:30 pm AWST.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hopman Cup 2015 is the official mixed team competition of the ITF and is proudly supported locally by the State Government, through Tourism WA. The event will take place at Perth Arena from Sunday 4 to Saturday 10 January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Hopman Cup is part of the Emirates Australian Open Series which also includes the Brisbane International presented by Suncorp, Apia International Sydney, Hobart International and the World Tennis Challenge (Adelaide).<\/p>\n<p>For further event information please visit<a title=\"Hopman Cup\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hopmancup.com\" target=\"_blank\"> <strong>www.hopmancup.com<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay connected with us via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hyundaihopmancup\"><strong>facebook<\/strong><\/a> and on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hopmancup\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Australia will see Marinko Matosevic (Vic) step in for Matt Ebden (WA) at Hopman Cup 2015. 27-year-old Ebden sustained a mild calf strain during his match against Poland\u2019s Jerzy Janowicz on Sunday night and has been forced to withdraw from the event. \u201cI\u2019m disappointed to withdraw from the Hopman Cup, an event I love [&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-9744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744","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=9744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}