{"id":542412,"date":"2026-04-21T07:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542412\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:11:08","slug":"bournemouth-teen-tennis-star-wins-wimbledon-qualifier-wildcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/542412\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth teen tennis star wins Wimbledon qualifier wildcard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking from the West Hants Tennis Club, where she grew up playing and proudly calls her second home, she said: &#8220;I&#8217;m just going to bring what I can do onto the court and see how it goes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said the thought of playing at Wimbledon was a childhood dream &#8220;especially for a British kid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You just want to aim for the stars and play those slams,&#8221; Daniella said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She will be hoping she can emulate one of her idols, seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic, who she said she has been fortunate enough to watch in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;Something about his presence on court, the way he just manages to deal with the pressures and expectations, it&#8217;s something really to admire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Daniella won a place at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/clyxg33zrnpo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) national academy<\/a> last year and said it had been &#8220;unbelievable&#8221;, giving her everything she could need to push for a professional career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She remains level-headed about the future and said she was just hoping to get through one round at her Wimbledon qualifier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t tend to look too far ahead, I want to take it one step at a time, keep it very realistic,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking from the West Hants Tennis Club, where she grew up playing and proudly calls her second home,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-542412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}