Queensland\u2019s Sara Tomic, Victorian Sally Peers and NSW player Seone Mendez, plus Abigail Tere-Apisah from Papua New Guinea have been awarded wildcards into the main draw of the Apis Canberra International ITF women\u2019s event, starting Tuesday 1 November at the Canberra Tennis Centre in Lyneham.<\/p>\n
Tere-Apisah has shown great form in 2016, shaving half of her world ranking points from 931 to a current career high of 543 in the world. Since September, the 24-year-old has reached three semi-final rounds at Australian ITF events including her first ever appearance in a $50,000 ITF event, Bendigo, Cairns and Brisbane, plus the quarter-finals in Tweed Heads.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a good couple of weeks,\u201d Tere-Apisah said. \u201cI\u2019ve gained a lot more confidence and I\u2019ve just trusted my game more as the matches have gone on. I\u2019ve had good preparation and it just gets better and better.\u201d<\/p>\n
After spending four years in the US\u00a0at Georgia State University, Tere-Apisah, aged 24, took a year off before playing the Pro Tour last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t do too well,\u201d she admitted. \u201cbut this year I\u2019ve had a good training environment with the right people around me and it\u2019s working out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tomic (QLD), sister of world no. 25 Bernard Tomic, has had a good year on the ITF circuit, with doubles and singles titles in Egypt. 18-year-old Tomic reached the semi-finals in Mildura and semi\u2019s at the Australian Open Junior Championships.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are really pleased to announce the inclusion of another three Australian women and a very strong international contender to the field for the Apis Canberra International,\u201d said Tournament Director Ross Triffitt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Rounds 1 and 2 of women\u2019s qualifying commenced today and will play out through to Tuesday November 1.<\/p>\n The men\u2019s event continues today, with round 3 of qualifying now underway. The men\u2019s main draw will be released today and is scheduled to start at 10am tomorrow.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s draw can be found on the Australian Pro Tour website<\/a>. And for live results and draws, go to the ITF Pro Circuit Canberra page.<\/a><\/p>\n Entry to the Canberra Tennis Centre is free for all five Pro-Tour 2016\/2017 events, with a gold coin donation upon entry on finals weekend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Queensland\u2019s Sara Tomic, Victorian Sally Peers and NSW player Seone Mendez, plus Abigail Tere-Apisah from Papua New Guinea have been awarded wildcards into the main draw of the Apis Canberra International ITF women\u2019s event, starting Tuesday 1 November at the Canberra Tennis Centre in Lyneham. Tere-Apisah has shown great form in 2016, shaving half of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5971,"featured_media":9739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9735","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\/9735","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\/5971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}