{"id":10323,"date":"2017-01-08T16:10:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T05:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=10323"},"modified":"2017-01-11T12:36:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T01:36:03","slug":"breakthrough-day-for-local-player-and-aussie-wildcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/01\/08\/breakthrough-day-for-local-player-and-aussie-wildcards","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough for local player and Aussie wildcards"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Frawley<\/strong> (ACT) is through to the main draw of the East Hotel Canberra Challenger 2017<\/strong> after defeating Jake Delaney<\/strong> (SA) in another nail-biting two set tie break match, 6-4, 7-6 [5].<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s win earns Frawley three ranking points, taking his total to four. As a result, next week\u2019s rankings update is expected to award the 22-year-old 600 spots, placing him in good stead to soon enter the top 1000 players in the world.<\/p>\n

Tournament Director Ross Triffitt<\/strong> said it\u2019s brilliant to have a home grown player in the draw.<\/p>\n

\u201cJames has played exceptionally well to qualify, winning both his matches in straight sets,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to have a local representative in the main draw, to inspire our next generation of players and it\u2019s great for James\u2019 ranking.\u201d<\/p>\n

In hot, dry Canberra conditions, todays remaining three main draw qualifiers were Nathan Pasha<\/strong> (USA), Yusuke Watanuki<\/strong> (JPN) and Luca Margaroli<\/strong> (SUI).<\/p>\n

Other notable Aussies joining Frawley in the main draw, will be Victoria\u2019s Andrew Harris<\/strong> and NSW player Alexei Popyrin<\/strong> have been awarded wildcards.<\/p>\n

Harris achieved a career high ranking in 2015 of No.483 in the world, however in 2016 left the pro circuit after succumbing to injury. The 22-year-old has Canberra ties, after partnering with fellow AIS Pro Tour scholarship holder Nick Kyrgios (ACT)<\/strong> to win the Roland Garros and Wimbledon junior boys\u2019 doubles titles in 2012. Prior to this, Andrew and Nick were junior boys\u2019 doubles semifinalists at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

Harris won his first ITF Futures title in 2013 in the United States and since then, has made two final round matches, again in the US and in Thailand.<\/p>\n

At just seventeen years of age, Popyrin has had recent success on the international ITF Futures circuit reaching the quarterfinal rounds Claremont and Fountain Valley, CA.<\/p>\n

The current world No.1154 also received a wildcard into the 2015 Canberra Challenger, where he lost his first round match to Diego Schwartzman<\/strong> (ARG) in straight sets.<\/p>\n

Triffitt continued \u201cIt\u2019s fantastic to see four young Australian players added to the field for the East Hotel Canberra Challenger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Main draw action will commence from 10am tomorrow and will feature top seed world No.63 Jan-Lennard Struff<\/strong> on centre court. Frawley will face world No.761 Aleksandar Vukic<\/strong> (NSW) on Tuesday 10 January 2017.<\/p>\n

Tournament information including Order of Play can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch the Canberra Pro Tour Live Stream<\/a> and keep up to date with live scores using the Pro Tennis Live App<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Frawley (ACT) is through to the main draw of the East Hotel Canberra Challenger 2017 after defeating Jake Delaney (SA) in another nail-biting two set tie break match, 6-4, 7-6 [5]. Today\u2019s win earns Frawley three ranking points, taking his total to four. As a result, next week\u2019s rankings update is expected to award […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5971,"featured_media":10327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}