{"id":10848,"date":"2017-03-26T15:25:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T04:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=10848"},"modified":"2017-06-13T10:46:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T00:46:02","slug":"polmans-champion-of-canberra-clay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/03\/26\/polmans-champion-of-canberra-clay","title":{"rendered":"Polmans champions Canberra clay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World No.220 <strong>Marc Polmans<\/strong> (VIC) has won ACT Claycourt International 2, his second title in as many weeks after defeating fellow Aussie <strong>Maverick Banes<\/strong> (QLD) 7-6[5], 6-7 [1], 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel stoked, he said. \u201cIt ended up being a good call coming back from China, I\u2019ve had some awesome matches throughout the week [so] really I couldn\u2019t be happier to get the back-to-back win today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In what was a three-hour three set thriller, Polmans and Banes went head to head for the majority of the match, both players winning important points at the net and baseline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was able to get that one break in the third [set] which proved to be the deciding factor in the match. But really, it could have gone either way so I\u2019m just happy I played the big points a little bit better today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Long rallies finished by drop shots were a recurrent feature throughout the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a tactic from the beginning of these two weeks to come to the net, it works a lot more effectively on the clay given my opponents footing may not be as stable. So I like to use a drop shot and come forward and keep them on their toes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like playing on the clay. These courts have been unbelievable considering how much rain we\u2019ve had so my body is feeling a lot better because of the clay, it\u2019s nice and soft.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, Polmans plans to favour Canberra Pro Tour tournaments in his schedule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority of my points have come from Canberra. I enjoy the conditions and the weather, it suits me and my game very nicely so I\u2019ll be definitely planning my schedule around the two challengers in Canberra later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Following the singles final, Polmans took to the Canberra clay again late this afternoon and secured the ACT Claycourt International #2 doubles title as well as the singles alongside <strong>Bradley Mousley<\/strong> (SA) against second seeds Steven De Waard (QLD) and Scott Puodziunas (QLD) 6-4 7-6(4).<\/p>\n<p>Polmans\u00a0will now return to Melbourne to do a three week training block and recover before travelling to Europe to compete in both the French Open and Wimbledon qualifying rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s singles and doubles final matches conclude the <strong>ACT Claycourt International 2017<\/strong> which included two Australian Pro Tour F1 Futures ITF tournaments from 11-26 March 2017 at the Canberra Tennis Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World No.220 Marc Polmans (VIC) has won ACT Claycourt International 2, his second title in as many weeks after defeating fellow Aussie Maverick Banes (QLD) 7-6[5], 6-7 [1], 6-4. \u201cI feel stoked, he said. \u201cIt ended up being a good call coming back from China, I\u2019ve had some awesome matches throughout the week [so] really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5971,"featured_media":10862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10848","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\/10848","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=10848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}