{"id":674476,"date":"2026-05-30T17:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/674476\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T17:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T17:07:17","slug":"jovic-channels-mentor-djokovics-greatest-attribute-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/674476\/","title":{"rendered":"Jovic channels mentor Djokovic\u2019s greatest attribute &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Jovic arrived in Auckland to open her season in January, she was already the youngest in the top 100 at world No.35.<\/p>\n<p>When she departed Melbourne Park less than a month later, she\u2019d reached the Auckland semifinals, Hobart final and her first major quarterfinal to crack the top 20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I&#8217;m playing with better shape. My shots, both forehand and backhand, have more weight on them, so just the overall ball quality is higher, and they&#8217;re not able to attack me as easily,\u201d she said of her improvements this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think my defence has gotten better, and the serve is a work in progress, but I think that&#8217;s making strides as well. So those couple of things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Jovic arrived in Auckland to open her season in January, she was already the youngest in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-674476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}