{"id":13025,"date":"2018-01-13T16:10:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T05:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=13025"},"modified":"2018-01-13T16:10:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T05:10:48","slug":"seppi-claims-east-hotel-canberra-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2018\/01\/13\/seppi-claims-east-hotel-canberra-challenger","title":{"rendered":"Seppi claims East Hotel Canberra Challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andreas Seppi <\/strong>(ITA) has taken out the East Hotel Canberra Challenger <\/strong>title in front of a packed crowd at the Canberra Tennis Centre.\u00a0 Seppi defeated Marton Fucsovics <\/strong>(HUN) 5-7 6-4 6-3 to claim his eighth ATP Challenger title and first since 2014.<\/p>\n

The opening set saw Seppi take an early lead, breaking in the fourth game and going out to a 4-1 lead.\u00a0 Fucsovics responded breaking back to level things up at 4-4.\u00a0 With the scores again locked at 5-5, Fucsovics stepped up to break Seppi, and then served it out to clinch the opening set 7-5.<\/p>\n

It remained on serve early in the second set before the wind picked up and made it difficult for both players on serve.\u00a0 \u00a0Seppi broke to go up 5-3 before Fucsovics broke straight back.\u00a0 \u00a0Seppi again broke serve hitting a forehand lob winner to secure the second set 6-3.<\/p>\n

The decider remained on serve until Seppi broke to go to a 5-3 lead.\u00a0 Seppi held serve winning a 20 ball rally to win the title.<\/p>\n

Despite the tough conditions, Seppi was pleased to come through a tough match.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not easy especially at the end of the second and third set it was very windy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was a good final, it was a tough fight, and I\u2019m happy to get the title here.<\/p>\n

Seppi was only one point away from losing in the opening round of the tournament when he faced a match point in his match against Maximilian Marterer <\/strong>(GER).<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing match point down in the first round and now standing here with the trophy it\u2019s for sure very important for me and special.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had some very good matches I have to say during this week, and I\u2019m pretty happy with my game so hopefully I can keep it up for Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Seppi will take plenty of confidence into Australian Open 2018 <\/strong>after defeating four top 100 opponents on the way to the East Hotel Canberra Challenger title.<\/p>\n

He will face Corentin Moutet <\/strong>(FRA) in the opening round, while Fucsovics will be making his debut at Melbourne Park against Radu Albot <\/strong>(MDA).<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s doubles final was played on Friday evening, with second seeds Jonathan Erlich <\/strong>(ISR) and Divij Sharan <\/strong>(IND) defeating top seeds Hans Podlipnik-Castillo <\/strong>(CHI) and Andrei Vasilevski <\/strong>(BLR) 7-6(1) 6-2.\u00a0 Both pairings will now head to Melbourne for Australian Open, with Erlich a former doubles champion, winning the title in 2008 with Andy Ram <\/strong>(ISR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andreas Seppi (ITA) has taken out the East Hotel Canberra Challenger title in front of a packed crowd at the Canberra Tennis Centre.\u00a0 Seppi defeated Marton Fucsovics (HUN) 5-7 6-4 6-3 to claim his eighth ATP Challenger title and first since 2014. The opening set saw Seppi take an early lead, breaking in the fourth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":13031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13025","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\/13025","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=13025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}