{"id":12453,"date":"2017-10-30T21:26:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T10:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=12453"},"modified":"2017-10-30T21:27:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T10:27:48","slug":"thompson-ebden-open-canberra-campaigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/10\/30\/thompson-ebden-open-canberra-campaigns","title":{"rendered":"Thompson, Ebden to open campaigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed\u00a0<strong>Jordan Thompson\u00a0<\/strong>(NSW) and third seed\u00a0<strong>Matthew Ebden\u00a0<\/strong>(WA) will open their campaigns at the\u00a0<strong>Apis Canberra International 2017\u00a0<\/strong>on Tuesday at the Canberra Tennis Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson comes into the USD$75,000 ATP Challenger as the top seed off the back of a solid 2017 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m feeling pretty good, a few weeks ago I qualified in Shanghai, its the first time I&#8217;ve qualified for a Masters&#8221; Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The confidence level is definitely raised, I&#8217;ve had some pretty good wins. I&#8217;ve beaten better quality opponents this year and a few wins in Davis Cup,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson will face a familiar opponent in the first round in <strong>Andrew Harris\u00a0<\/strong>(VIC). \u00a0The pair are the same age and have grown up playing against each other in the junior ranks. \u00a0Harris has also been in good form, winning his maiden pro tour title in Toowoomba earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Ebden has also had an outstanding year, which has seen him rise almost 600 places in the ATP rankings, currently sitting at 117. \u00a0He will face\u00a0<strong>Brydan Klein\u00a0<\/strong>(GBR) in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s finalist\u00a0<strong>Marc Polmans\u00a0<\/strong>(VIC) will also be in action along with\u00a0<strong>Jason Kubler\u00a0<\/strong>(QLD) and\u00a0<strong>Alex Bolt\u00a0<\/strong>(SA) who featured in last week&#8217;s\u00a0Traralgon ATP Challenger final in which Kubler prevailed in three sets.<\/p>\n<p>Main draw women&#8217;s action will commence on Tuesday with\u00a0<strong>Jessica Moore\u00a0<\/strong>(WA),\u00a0<strong>Belinda Woolcock\u00a0<\/strong>(VIC),\u00a0<strong>Alexandra Bozovic\u00a0<\/strong>(NSW), and\u00a0<strong>Storm Sanders\u00a0<\/strong>(WA) all competing.<\/p>\n<p>The Apis Canberra International 2017 is on at the Canberra Tennis Centre until November 5 2017. Entry is free with a gold coin donation requested on finals weekend<\/p>\n<p>The full order of play and qualifying draw can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tournaments\/australian-pro-tour\/canberra\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Live streaming for the women can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epicentre.tv\/itf-tennis\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Live scoring for the women\u2019s event can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itfprocircuit.tennis-live-scores.com\/scoreboard.aspx?na=AUS\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Live streaming and live scoring for the men\u2019s event can be found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/en\/atp-challenger-tour\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed\u00a0Jordan Thompson\u00a0(NSW) and third seed\u00a0Matthew Ebden\u00a0(WA) will open their campaigns at the\u00a0Apis Canberra International 2017\u00a0on Tuesday at the Canberra Tennis Centre. Thompson comes into the USD$75,000 ATP Challenger as the top seed off the back of a solid 2017 season. &#8220;I&#8217;m feeling pretty good, a few weeks ago I qualified in Shanghai, its the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":12467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12453","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\/12453","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\/5789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}