{"id":12569,"date":"2017-11-05T17:32:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T06:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=12569"},"modified":"2017-11-08T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T04:04:07","slug":"ebden-clinches-apis-canberra-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2017\/11\/05\/ebden-clinches-apis-canberra-international","title":{"rendered":"Ebden clinches Apis CBR International"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perth\u2019s Matthew Ebden<\/strong> is on the verge of breaking back into the top 100 after a hard-fought 7-6(4) 6-4 victory over second seed Taro Daniel<\/strong>\u00a0(JPN) at the Apis Canberra International<\/strong> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old, who started the year at \u201cbasically zero\u201d after missing most of 2016 with a knee injury, served well and attacked the net with gusto.<\/p>\n

\u201cI forced myself to stay aggressive \u2026 and it paid off in the end. It\u2019s really nice obviously to win here at home,\u201d Ebden, a former AIS scholarship holder, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I had to execute my game pretty well today, that was key.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tournament\u2019s third seed took command of the match early, breaking Daniel in the second game of the match.<\/p>\n

However, Ebden was unable to serve it out as Daniel, who took Rafael Nadal to four sets at this year\u2019s US Open, broke back with some brilliant passing shots in the ninth game.<\/p>\n

The third seeded Ebden was not deterred. Solid serving and more net rushing soon gained the early advantage in the tiebreak, eventually winning it 7-4.<\/p>\n

A solitary break in the seventh game of the second set was all the world No.117 needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew my level my good,\u201d Ebden said. \u201cI started playing well in January, February and made quarter-finals of Memphis and started winning matches in the tour events and made my first final in Newport, so that was great, and then it just kicked on from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ebden will finish off his impressive comeback season with some tournaments in Japan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll just try to finish the year as best I can and see how high I can push up in the rankings, basically, just get things set for next year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always an unbelievable time for us coming back at the end of the season, being home in Australia, the weather\u2019s good, December, January, the Australian summer – there\u2019s nothing better in the world so I\u2019ll look forward to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

About the Apis Canberra International<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Apis Canberra International 2017 was held from 28 October \u2013 5 November at the Canberra tennis Centre.\u00a0 A USD$75,000 ATP Challenger and ITF Women\u2019s USD$60,000 event, the tournament attracted players from 19 countries.<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s Singles Final<\/em><\/p>\n

[3] Matthew Ebden (AUS) d [2] Taro Daniel (JPN) 7-6(4) 6-4<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s Singles Final<\/em><\/p>\n

[6] Olivia Rogowska (AUS) d [4] Destanee Aiava (AUS) 6-1 6-2<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s Doubles Final<\/em><\/p>\n

[3] Alex Bolt (AUS) \/ Bradley Mousley (AUS) d [2] Luke Saville (AUS) \/ Andrew Whittington 6-3 6-2 (AUS)<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s Doubles Final<\/em><\/p>\n

[1] Arina Rodionova (AUS) \/ Asia Muhammad (USA) d [3] Jessica Moore (AUS) \/ Ellen Perez (AUS) 6-4 6-4<\/p>\n

Final draws can found here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perth\u2019s Matthew Ebden is on the verge of breaking back into the top 100 after a hard-fought 7-6(4) 6-4 victory over second seed Taro Daniel\u00a0(JPN) at the Apis Canberra International on Sunday. The 29-year-old, who started the year at \u201cbasically zero\u201d after missing most of 2016 with a knee injury, served well and attacked the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":12573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12569","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\/12569","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=12569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}