{"id":15468,"date":"2019-09-19T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T23:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=15468"},"modified":"2019-09-19T09:25:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T23:25:49","slug":"leggett-breaking-new-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2019\/09\/19\/leggett-breaking-new-ground","title":{"rendered":"Leggett breaking new ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a breakthrough year for Canberra\u2019s Matthew Leggett who earlier this month broke into the world\u2019s top 200 in the ITF Wheelchair rankings.\u00a0 Leggett will line up for the Canberra Wheelchair Tennis Open, which kicks off at the Canberra Tennis Centre today and is seeded for the first time at the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year I got through to the quarters so hoping this year to go a little further. It looks like I might be a seeded player this year which is something different for myself for once, it gives me a bit of an easier look in to the first match and I can get my tournament started in a positive way,\u201d said Leggett.<\/p>\n<p>For Leggett, reaching the world\u2019s top 200 was an important milestone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s quite a big achievement for myself, it\u2019s a goal I set at the start of this year as something that I wanted to achieve.\u00a0 To be able to do that with still 2 or 3 tournaments to play, it\u2019s something I\u2019m pretty proud of.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a good start to the year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Leggett won the Most Outstanding Athlete with a Disability award at the Tennis ACT Awards for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A huge career milestone for Matthew Leggett breaking into the top 200 of the ITF Wheelchair world rankings.  <\/p>\n<p>For a second year in a row, Matthew is the Most Outstanding Athlete with a Disability.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TACTAwards19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TACTAwards19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UoJ1Svsbmd\">pic.twitter.com\/UoJ1Svsbmd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; tennisact (@TennisCanberra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisCanberra\/status\/1172769306318213120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Leggett has a first round bye, and will face the winner of fellow Canberra player Ante Busic and Danny Jeffery.\u00a0 World No.82 Martyn Dunn is the top seed in the men\u2019s event which also features rising junior star Riley Dumsday.\u00a0 Earlier this year Dumsday, along with Hayley Slocombe who is top seed in the women\u2019s draw, were part of the historic team who claimed Australia\u2019s first ever junior World Team Cup title.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/tennisaustralia\/status\/1130028274967384064<\/p>\n<p>Play commences at 1pm on Thursday 19 September with free entry to the Canberra Tennis Centre.\u00a0 The tournament will run until Sunday 22 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a breakthrough year for Canberra\u2019s Matthew Leggett who earlier this month broke into the world\u2019s top 200 in the ITF Wheelchair rankings.\u00a0 Leggett will line up for the Canberra Wheelchair Tennis Open, which kicks off at the Canberra Tennis Centre today and is seeded for the first time at the event. \u201cLast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5789,"featured_media":15473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15468","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\/15468","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=15468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}