{"id":12550,"date":"2017-11-04T20:56:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T09:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=12550"},"modified":"2017-11-04T21:12:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T10:12:15","slug":"ebden-and-daniel-to-battle-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/11\/04\/ebden-and-daniel-to-battle-it-out","title":{"rendered":"Ebden and Daniel to battle it out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Ebden\u00a0<\/strong>(WA) and\u00a0Taro Daniel\u00a0<\/strong>(JPN) will face off in the final of the\u00a0Apis Canberra International\u00a0<\/strong>on Sunday at the Canberra Tennis Centre.<\/p>\n

Ebden defeated last year’s finalist\u00a0Marc Polmans\u00a0<\/strong>(VIC) in the semifinals in a three set battle lasting almost 2 hours, 5-7 6-1 6-4.<\/p>\n

After dropping a scrappy first set, Ebden lifted his game in the second.<\/p>\n

“I think after the first set I freed up a bit and found some more control. I was able to hit out and really stepped up my game and that was much more of the level I was after.<\/p>\n

Ebden raced through the second and broke early in the third with chances to go up a double break before Polmans fought back<\/p>\n

“He did well to step up and play a really good level to stop losing the double break. \u00a0The next few games we were both playing pretty well on our serves”.<\/p>\n

Ebden proved too strong on serve, closing out the match and securing a finals birth. \u00a0Ebden is expecting a tough match against Daniel in the final.<\/p>\n

“He’s also been a top 100 players, I know he’s been playing a full schedule so he’s played a lot of matches. This year I’ve played a lot on tour, and it will be a good test again,” Ebden added.<\/p>\n

After missing most of 2016 with injury, Ebden has had to rebuild his ranking, being forced to go through qualifying for most events at the start of the year. \u00a0He made his maiden ATP final in Newport and also made the quarterfinals of the Memphis Open.<\/p>\n

In today’s other semifinal, Daniel defeated\u00a0Alex Bolt\u00a0<\/strong>(SA) in straight sets 7-6(2) 6-2. \u00a0Daniel is also a former top 100 player and currently sits at 108 in the rankings. At this year\u2019s US Open, Daniel won his opening round and then took the first set off world number 1 Rafael Nadal before falling in four sets.<\/p>\n

The men’s singles final is scheduled for not before 12.00pm on centre court.<\/p>\n

The women’s final will commence at 11.00am with fourth seed Destanee Aiava\u00a0<\/strong>(VIC) to take on sixth seed\u00a0Olivia Rogowska\u00a0<\/strong>(VIC). \u00a0For a recap of the women’s semifinals click here.<\/p>\n

Entry is by gold coin donation, with limited seating available on a first come basis.<\/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":"

Matthew Ebden\u00a0(WA) and\u00a0Taro Daniel\u00a0(JPN) will face off in the final of the\u00a0Apis Canberra International\u00a0on Sunday at the Canberra Tennis Centre. Ebden defeated last year’s finalist\u00a0Marc Polmans\u00a0(VIC) in the semifinals in a three set battle lasting almost 2 hours, 5-7 6-1 6-4. After dropping a scrappy first set, Ebden lifted his game in the second. “I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":12553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12550","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\/12550","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=12550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}