{"id":570418,"date":"2026-05-07T04:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570418\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:11:18","slug":"iva-jovic-confirmed-for-summer-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/570418\/","title":{"rendered":"Iva Jovic confirmed for summer line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American rising star Iva Jovic has been confirmed for the WTA 250 event at the Lexus Nottingham Open this year.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place from 13-21 June, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lta.org.uk\/fan-zone\/international\/lexus-nottingham-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lexus Nottingham Open<\/a> brings together world class women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s tennis stars for an action-packed event in the heart of Nottingham.<\/p>\n<p>Currently ranked world No.17, the 18-year-old has enjoyed a strong start to 2026, reaching a career-high singles ranking of 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year, Jovic has reached the final of the WTA 250 Hobart, two WTA semi-finals in Charleston and Auckland. She also reached the quarter finals of a Grand Slam for the first time, reaching the last eight at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lta.org.uk\/fan-zone\/grand-slam\/australian-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> before falling to Aryna Sabalenka.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jovic claimed her first WTA title at the WTA 500 Guadalajara in Mexico last September, and in doing so, became the youngest singles champion of the season, aged just 17 years and 283 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are still available for this summer\u2019s Lexus Nottingham Open, with Centre Court tickets starting from \u00a314 for adults and \u00a36 for kids, and grounds admission tickets starting at \u00a312 for adults and kids for free.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American rising star Iva Jovic has been confirmed for the WTA 250 event at the Lexus Nottingham Open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-570418","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\/570418","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=570418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}