{"id":12992,"date":"2018-01-10T20:22:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T09:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=12992"},"modified":"2018-01-10T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T10:18:09","slug":"top-seed-crashes-out-seppi-mayer-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2018\/01\/10\/top-seed-crashes-out-seppi-mayer-progress","title":{"rendered":"Top seed crashes out; Seppi &amp; Mayer progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed and defending champion\u00a0<strong>Dudi Sela\u00a0<\/strong>(ISR) has been bundled out in the opening round of the\u00a0<strong>East Hotel Canberra Challenger 2018\u00a0<\/strong>by France&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Hugo Grenier\u00a0<\/strong>who backed up later in the day to clinch a thrilling victory over Australia&#8217;s last remaining hope\u00a0<strong>Andrew Harris\u00a0<\/strong>(Vic).<\/p>\n<p>The match between Sela and Grenier was held over from Tuesday&#8217;s play due to thunderstorms. \u00a0The first set was a tightly contested battle which went to a tiebreak, with Grenier coming out on top, 8-6. \u00a0In the second set,\u00a0Sela became visibly frustrated, at one stage smashing a ball into the carpark, but it was one way traffic with the world No. 395 closing it out 6-1 to notch up his first top 100 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Just two hours later, Grenier was back out on centre court to face Harris in the second round. \u00a0Grenier took the first set 7-5 before Harris bounced back to take the second 6-3. \u00a0The Aussie took the lead when he secured the break early in the third, but Grenier broke back to level things up at 4-4. \u00a0With the final set to be decided by a tiebreak, Harris again went up early 3-1, before Grenier rattled off six straight points to win the match and progress to his first ATP Challenger quarterfinal where he will face\u00a0<strong>Hugo Fucsovics\u00a0<\/strong>(HUN).<\/p>\n<p>In other matches on day five, <strong>Florian Mayer<\/strong> (GER) came through a tight match with\u00a0Queensland wildcard Ben<strong> Mitchell\u00a0<\/strong>6-4 7-6 (6), while third seed\u00a0<strong>Guillermo Garcia-Lopez\u00a0<\/strong>(ESP) edged out\u00a0<strong>Geoffrey Blancaneaux\u00a0<\/strong>(FRA). \u00a0<strong>Andreas Seppi\u00a0<\/strong>(ITA) and Fucsovics<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(HUN) were both convincing in their straight set victories.<\/p>\n<p>Emotions ran high in the battle between\u00a0<strong>Maxime Janvier\u00a0<\/strong>(FRA) and\u00a0<strong>Nicolas Jarry\u00a0<\/strong>(CHI), with Janvier prevailing in a deciding set tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elliot Benchetrit\u00a0<\/strong>(FRA) ended the run of Australian qualifier\u00a0<strong>Jeremy Beale,\u00a0<\/strong>while fifth seed\u00a0<strong>Victor Estrella Burgos\u00a0<\/strong>(DOM) progressed after\u00a0<strong>Tim Puetz\u00a0<\/strong>(GER) was forced to withdraw with injury just moments before their clash was set to take place.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterfinals will take place on Thursday, with a blockbuster clash set between former world No.18 Seppi and former world No.23 Garcia-Lopez. Seppi will take confidence into the match leading their career meetings 5-1.<\/p>\n<p>At least one Frenchman will be in the semifinals with countrymen Benchetrit and Janvier to play, while Estrella Burgos and Mayer will feature in the final quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p>Entry to the Canberra Tennis Centre is free. \u00a0Play commences at 11.00am.<\/p>\n<p>The order of play and draws can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tournaments\/australian-pro-tour\/canberra-2\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seed and defending champion\u00a0Dudi Sela\u00a0(ISR) has been bundled out in the opening round of the\u00a0East Hotel Canberra Challenger 2018\u00a0by France&#8217;s\u00a0Hugo Grenier\u00a0who backed up later in the day to clinch a thrilling victory over Australia&#8217;s last remaining hope\u00a0Andrew Harris\u00a0(Vic). The match between Sela and Grenier was held over from Tuesday&#8217;s play due to thunderstorms. \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":12997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12992","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\/12992","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=12992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}