{"id":14482,"date":"2019-01-04T12:30:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T01:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=14482"},"modified":"2019-01-04T12:30:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T01:30:41","slug":"darcis-out-frawley-scores-wc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2019\/01\/04\/darcis-out-frawley-scores-wc","title":{"rendered":"Darcis out, Frawley scores WC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Steve Darcis <\/strong>(BEL) has withdrawn from the <strong>East Hotel Canberra Challenger<\/strong>, while local player <strong>James Frawley <\/strong>(ACT) has received a wildcard into main draw.<\/p>\n<p>Darcis is currently playing in the ATP 250 event in Pune, India and has made it through to the semifinals of the event.\u00a0 Darcis has knocked out two seeds enroute to the semifinals including the top seed at next week\u2019s East Hotel Canberra Challenger, <strong>Roberto Baena Carballes <\/strong>(ESP).<\/p>\n<p>Tournament director Kim Kachel says \u201cWhile we are disappointed we won\u2019t get to see Steve in Canberra next week, we are happy to see him back on the tour and playing so well.\u00a0 We wish him all the best in the semifinals of the <strong>Tata Open Maharashtra\u00a0<\/strong>and the 2019 season.<\/p>\n<p>Canberra\u2019s James Frawley, along with <strong>Bradley Mousley <\/strong>(SA) and <strong>Matthew Christopher Romios <\/strong>(Vic) have received main draw wildcards.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the second time Frawley has featured in main draw in the event after coming through qualifying in 2017 before falling in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old is looking forward to the opportunity to kick start his 2019 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very excited, it\u2019s pretty cool to get a main draw wildcard in your home city for a big tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had a pretty decent off season, there have been a few top 100 players who have been training here, so I\u2019ve been practicing with them, so I\u2019m feeling ready,\u201d Frawley said.<\/p>\n<p>Main draw for the East Hotel Canberra Challenger will commence on Sunday.\u00a0 The draw will be release on Saturday with the order of play for Sunday available Saturday afternoon at the following location &#8211;\u00a0https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tournaments\/australian-pro-tour\/canberra-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Darcis (BEL) has withdrawn from the East Hotel Canberra Challenger, while local player James Frawley (ACT) has received a wildcard into main draw. Darcis is currently playing in the ATP 250 event in Pune, India and has made it through to the semifinals of the event.\u00a0 Darcis has knocked out two seeds enroute to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":14486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14482","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\/14482","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=14482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}