{"id":10754,"date":"2017-03-15T16:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T05:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=10754"},"modified":"2017-03-15T16:32:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T05:32:07","slug":"bourchier-bumps-top-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/03\/15\/bourchier-bumps-top-seed","title":{"rendered":"Bourchier Bumps Top Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"

World No.873 Harry Bourchier<\/strong> (TAS) caused major upset on Day 2 to overcome world No.220 and tournament top seed Jordi Samper-Montana<\/strong> (ESP) in an epic comeback at the ACT Claycourt International 2017.<\/p>\n

Down 5-0 in the first set, Bourchier was forced to dig deep against the Spaniard, closing out the match 6-7[3], 5-7 in one hour and 49 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was down 5-0 in the first set, so to get back in the first set and be in contention to even win that set was a top effort,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe [Sampner-Montana] started off a lot better than me, but I worked hard and caught up with him in the end”.<\/p>\n

\u201cI played really well and worked hard. Clay isn\u2019t really my surface so to beat a Spanish guy on clay is pretty insane, and I\u2019m pretty happy about it\u201d.<\/p>\n

Based in Canberra since the middle of last year, the 21-year-old Tasmanian now trains in Canberra. For the past few months, he has worked towards perfecting his game on clay.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had a bit of a match losing streak so it was good to break that at the same time\u201d.<\/p>\n

The win gains Bourchier a place in round 2 of the event, set to take on Steven DeWaard<\/strong> (QLD) on Thursday 16 March at 10am.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe win gives me a lot of confidence going forward, so hopefully I can bring that into the next match\u201d.<\/p>\n

In other matches local James Frawley<\/strong> (ACT) was defeated by fellow Aussie Bradley Mousley<\/strong> (AUS). Top seeds [2] Marc Polmans<\/strong> (VIC), [4] Blake Mott<\/strong> (VIC), Evan King<\/strong> (USA) and Dayne Kelly<\/strong> (AUS) all progressed to the second round.<\/p>\n

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ACT Claycourt International event #1: Main Draw Day 3\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Order of Play R16 –\u00a0<\/strong>Thursday 16 March 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

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SECOND ROUND SINGLES \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Starting at 10:00 Bradley MOUSLEY (AUS) vs Marc POLMANS (VIC) [2]<\/p>\n

Starting at 10:00 Sora FUKUDA (JPN) vs \u00a0Maverick BANES (AUS) [8]<\/p>\n

Starting at 10:00 Harry BOURCHIER (TAS) vs \u00a0Steven DE WAARD (QLD)<\/p>\n

Starting at 10:00 Thales TURINI (BRA) vs \u00a0Evan KING (USA) [5]<\/p>\n

Not Before 11:30 Alex BOLT (AUS) vs \u00a0Omar JASIKA (VIC) [3]<\/p>\n

Not Before 11:30 Blake MOTT (VIC) [4] vs \u00a0Makoto OCHI (JPN)<\/p>\n

Not Before 11:30 Dayne KELLY (AUS) [6] \u00a0vs Greg JONES (NSW)<\/p>\n

Not Before 11:30 Jose STATHAM (NZL) [7] vs \u00a0Kazuma KAWACHI (JPN)<\/p>\n

DOUBLES SEMI-FINALS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

After Rest, Not Before 13:00 Bradley MOUSLEY (AUS) \/ Marc POLMANS (AUS) [1] \u00a0vs Evan KING (USA) [3] \/ Nathan PASHA (USA) MD<\/p>\n

After Rest, Not Before 13:00 Maverick BANES (AUS) \/ Gavin VAN PEPERZEEL \u00a0 vs Steven DE WAARD (AUS) [2] \/ Scott PUODZIUNAS \u00a0MD<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Watch the Canberra Pro Tour Live Stream<\/a> and keep up to date with live scores through\u00a0www.tennis.com.au\/protour\/scores<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World No.873 Harry Bourchier (TAS) caused major upset on Day 2 to overcome world No.220 and tournament top seed Jordi Samper-Montana (ESP) in an epic comeback at the ACT Claycourt International 2017. Down 5-0 in the first set, Bourchier was forced to dig deep against the Spaniard, closing out the match 6-7[3], 5-7 in one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5971,"featured_media":10758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10754","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\/10754","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=10754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}