{"id":12455,"date":"2017-10-30T20:32:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T09:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=12455"},"modified":"2017-10-30T22:13:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T11:13:22","slug":"staines-prevails-in-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/10\/30\/staines-prevails-in-three","title":{"rendered":"Staines prevails in three"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Academy athlete Kaitlin Staines<\/strong>\u2019 winning return to the court has continued with a hard-fought three-set match at the Apis Canberra International<\/strong> today.<\/p>\n

Staines, who took the past four months off tennis to concentrate on her HSC, beat Genevieve Lorbergs <\/strong>(SA)\u00a0\u00a07-6(2) 3-6 6-2 in just over two hours.<\/p>\n

The 17-year-old said she was happy with where her big-hitting game is right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s definitely better than I was expecting,\u201d she said. \u201cI probably had pretty low expectations going out there but that is probably what\u2019s helped, being more relaxed out there.”<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely hard with the wind and even the sun at one end today, so it was pretty scrappy tennis but I was happy to push through on those more important points.\u201d<\/p>\n

She will now face rising 19-year-old Ramu Ueda\u00a0<\/strong>(JPN), for a place in the main draw. \u00a0Ueda was a 6-0 6-3 winner over local National Academy player Lisa Mays<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never played her but I watched her a little bit today, she\u2019s a great player,\u201d Staines said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a massive grind and it\u2019s going to be really hard to get through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, Staines and Mays lost to top seeds Sara Tomic<\/strong> (QLD) and Alana Parnaby<\/strong>\u00a0(VIC) 5-7 6-4 (8-10) in a thrilling doubles qualifying match lasting 1hr 37min. \u00a0The pair were leading 8-5 in the super-tiebreak before losing the next five points.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just that one point that sort of changed the game, but I think we did really well against a pair like that to get really close,\u201d Staines said.<\/p>\n

In main draw men’s action, 2015 Canberra International finalist\u00a0Luke Saville\u00a0<\/strong>(SA) upset fourth seed\u00a0Mitchell Krueger\u00a0<\/strong>(USA), while\u00a0Sebastian\u00a0<\/strong>Fanselow\u00a0<\/strong>(GER) beat sixth seed\u00a0Noah Rubin\u00a0<\/strong>(USA). \u00a0Second seed\u00a0Taro Daniel\u00a0<\/strong>(JPN) and eighth seed\u00a0Omar Jaskia\u00a0<\/strong>(VIC) also progressed to the second round recording straight set wins.<\/p>\n

In the men\u2019s doubles first round, Canberra\u2019s James Frawley<\/strong> and Jacob Grills<\/strong> (VIC) lost to Brydan Klein<\/strong> (GBR) and Dane Propoggia<\/strong> (NSW) 5-7 4-6.<\/p>\n

The final round of women’s qualifying will be played on Tuesday, with main draw women’s matches also commencing. \u00a0The first round of men’s main draw will also continue on Tuesday featuring top seed\u00a0Jordan Thompson\u00a0<\/strong>(NSW) and\u00a0Matthew Ebden\u00a0<\/strong>(WA).<\/p>\n

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

The full order of play and qualifying draw can be found\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n

Live streaming for the women can be found here<\/a>.\u00a0 Live scoring for the women\u2019s event can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Live streaming and live scoring for the men\u2019s event can be found here<\/a><\/p>\n

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National Academy athlete Kaitlin Staines\u2019 winning return to the court has continued with a hard-fought three-set match at the Apis Canberra International today. Staines, who took the past four months off tennis to concentrate on her HSC, beat Genevieve Lorbergs (SA)\u00a0\u00a07-6(2) 3-6 6-2 in just over two hours. The 17-year-old said she was happy with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":12459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12455","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\/12455","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=12455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}