{"id":10789,"date":"2017-03-19T16:21:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T05:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=10789"},"modified":"2017-03-19T16:21:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T05:21:04","slug":"polmans-cracks-canberra-clay-title-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/03\/19\/polmans-cracks-canberra-clay-title-1","title":{"rendered":"Polmans cracks Canberra clay title 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

World No.225 Marc Polmans <\/strong>(VIC) has won the first event of the ACT Claycourt International 2017<\/strong> defeating fourth seed and team mate Blake Mott<\/strong> (NSW) 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 at the Canberra Tennis Centre in Lyneham.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew the match wasn\u2019t going to be easy,\u201d he said. \u201cHe [Mott] is a good competitor and our coach prides himself on competing and fighting until the end, so it was a good match\u201d.<\/p>\n

A neck and neck first set followed by a focused Mott service game seemed to determine the match, however Mott\u2019s emotions got the better of him in the third, a point penalty for racquet abuse paving the way to a Polmans victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was just a few points in it in the end,\u201d said Polmans. \u201cI was pretty happy to scrape in with that first set, considering I served for it 5-4, so it was a big confidence boost to win that. He [Mott] bounced back and won the second, so it just became 50-50 in the third set\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI find it pretty easy to control my emotions and I think that was a bit of a key today. Blake [Mott] kind of blew up a little bit, which may have cost him with that point penalty\u201d.<\/p>\n

Polmans appeared in the Apis Canberra International<\/em> final in November 2016 and made a spontaneous decision to return to the capital while on tour in China last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was planning on playing a few Challengers there [China] but the cut off was 200 for main draw which meant I had to play qualies [qualifying round] so I wasn\u2019t guaranteed matches\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw these two tournaments and I thought I might give them a crack and just come back home. It was a good decision in the end\u201d.<\/p>\n

The road to success was longer than it could have been, but the 19-year-old said he likes playing on clay which made it tough for his opponents.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like playing in Canberra, the conditions suit me very well, it\u2019s nice and windy sometimes which some players don\u2019t find too comfortable. But for me. I was winning most of my matches in straight sets and it was pretty smooth up until today.<\/p>\n

The win earns Polmans a number of valuable ranking points, the tournament matches set to take him inside the top 200 ranked players in the world. He will compete in ACT Claycourt International #2 from Tuesday March 21.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to try and do the same next week. I\u2019ll take it one match at a time, but yes, I\u2019ll be looking to go back to back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ACT Claycourt Internatioanl continues, with event #2 qualifying underway and main draw due to start on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World No.225 Marc Polmans (VIC) has won the first event of the ACT Claycourt International 2017 defeating fourth seed and team mate Blake Mott (NSW) 7-6, 3-6, 6-4 at the Canberra Tennis Centre in Lyneham. \u201cI knew the match wasn\u2019t going to be easy,\u201d he said. \u201cHe [Mott] is a good competitor and our coach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5971,"featured_media":10794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10789","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\/10789","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=10789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}