{"id":4600,"date":"2013-10-16T23:18:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T23:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:03:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:03:04","slug":"dokic-looking-for-return-to-the-wta-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/wta-tennis\/dokic-looking-for-return-to-the-wta-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Dokic Looking for Return to the WTA Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4601\" alt=\"Jelena Dokic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/jelena-dokic.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/jelena-dokic.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/jelena-dokic-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jelena Dokic, the former World No. 4, is hoping to return to the WTA tour at the Australian Open in 2014. The 30-year-old Australian-based Serb has been working out with Todd Woodbridge, the head of professional tennis down under.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;She wants to get back into the game,&#8221; stated Craig Tiley, the chief executive of Tennis Australia. &#8221;She&#8217;s training every day with a focus on next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dokic was a Wimbledon semifinalist in 2000 before a spate of family issues with a domineering father and subsequent injuries derailed her career.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, she made a strong return by reaching the quarterfinals of the Australian Open before injuries once again sabotaged her comeback.<\/p>\n<p>It would be a remarkable return that almost certainly hinges on Tennis Australia awarding a wildcard entry.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><em>Cover Photo:\u00a0NAPARAZZI, Creative Commons License<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jelena Dokic, the former World No. 4, is hoping to return to the WTA tour at the Australian Open in 2014. The 30-year-old Australian-based Serb has been working out with Todd Woodbridge, the head of professional tennis down under. &#8221;She wants to get back into the game,&#8221; stated Craig Tiley, the chief executive of Tennis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[426,424,425,779,427,113],"class_list":["post-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wta-tennis","tag-australian-open","tag-jelena-dokic","tag-return","tag-tennis","tag-todd-woodbridge","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}