{"id":12538,"date":"2017-11-04T17:34:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T06:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=12538"},"modified":"2017-11-04T20:54:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T09:54:29","slug":"aiava-ends-bais-dream-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/11\/04\/aiava-ends-bais-dream-run","title":{"rendered":"Aiava ends Bai’s dream run"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alison Bai<\/strong>\u2019s (ACT) dream run at the Apis Canberra International\u00a0<\/strong>came to an end on Saturday after 17-year-old Destanee Aiava<\/strong>\u00a0(VIC) won their semifinal 6-3 7-5.<\/p>\n

Bai, ranked 604, dropped serve early in the first set and was on the back foot from then on against the tournament\u2019s fourth seed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started off slowly,\u201d Bai said. \u201cI knew she was a good ball-striker but I hadn\u2019t played her or hit with her before so I took a while to figure her out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end she was too solid off both sides and didn\u2019t give me many opportunities. It was a good quality match.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hometown favourite said she was happy with her tournament, having knocked out top-seed Arina Rodionova<\/strong>\u00a0(VIC) in the second round.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a great week, I\u2019m really happy with the way I\u2019ve played,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Aiava, the world\u2019s 169, will play sixth seed Olivia Rogowska <\/strong>(VIC), a 1-6 6-3 6-0 victor against world number 304\u00a0Julia Glushko <\/strong>(ISR).<\/p>\n

Rogowska, who has been ranked as high as 102 in 2014, came back from a set and three-love down to reach the final.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything happened so fast [today], credit to Julia, she came out really pumped up in the first set and played some really good tennis,\u201d Rogowska said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud of myself how I just hung in there. I wanted to snap, I can get quite emotional but I stayed cool and worked a couple of things out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI slowed things down and made her play a couple of extra balls, in a matter of minutes I was back at 3-3 and I thought I\u2019m back in this. By the end of it I was playing some good tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogowska, who has had a \u201crollercoaster couple of years\u201d, has now won 18 of her past 20 matches on the Pro Tour circuit in Australia, winning titles in Cairns and Penrith, along with a semifinal appearance in Brisbane.<\/p>\n

The difference, she said, was simply a change of mindset.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019ve just matured to be honest. I\u2019m approaching my matches in a positive mindset, expecting to battle every match and I feel like that approach has really helped me. I feel like I\u2019ve won some tough matches simply due to my attitude,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t feel like I\u2019ve technically changed much with my forehand and backhand. Just really believing in myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said she was expecting a tough match in the final against Aiava tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cDestanee is a very talented up-and-comer who hits an incrediblly hard ball, it\u2019s going to be tough,\u201d Rogowska said.<\/p>\n

\u201c[But] I been serving really well and moving really well and my confidence is really high, so I believe I can do well [in the final].\u201d<\/p>\n

The women’s final will take place at 11.00am at the Canberra Tennis Centre. \u00a0Entry is by gold coin donation, with limited seating available on a first come basis.<\/p>\n

In the men’s final Matthew Ebden\u00a0<\/strong>(WA) will take on\u00a0Taro Daniel\u00a0<\/strong>(JPN), not before 12.00pm.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alison Bai\u2019s (ACT) dream run at the Apis Canberra International\u00a0came to an end on Saturday after 17-year-old Destanee Aiava\u00a0(VIC) won their semifinal 6-3 7-5. Bai, ranked 604, dropped serve early in the first set and was on the back foot from then on against the tournament\u2019s fourth seed. \u201cI started off slowly,\u201d Bai said. \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":12542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12538","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\/12538","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=12538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}