{"id":9765,"date":"2016-11-01T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=9765"},"modified":"2016-11-01T17:05:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T06:05:49","slug":"cabrera-ready-for-canberra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2016\/11\/01\/cabrera-ready-for-canberra","title":{"rendered":"Cabrera ready for the Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"banner-article__container__text\">\n<p>Queensland teen <strong>Lizette Cabrera<\/strong> is the in-form Australian heading into the first day of main draw play in the<strong> Apis Canberra International<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wysiwyg\">\n<p>The recent wildcard recipient into qualifying at the upcoming <strong>Australian Open 2017<\/strong> has made an impressive run during the Australian Pro Tour thus far, collecting two titles (Tweed Heads and Brisbane) and rising to a career-high ranking of world No.258.<\/p>\n<p>Cabrera has drawn the seventh seed first up in Canberra \u2013 Croatian <strong>Jana Fett<\/strong> \u2013 but remains undeterred.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJana\u2019s obviously a tough first round,\u201d she said. \u201cBut the way I\u2019m playing it should be a good match. Hopefully I can get over the line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t actually played here in Canberra that much but just practicing on the courts, I like them, they are quite fast and I think they\u2019ll really suit my game style. I\u2019m really looking forward to playing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Should she upset Fett, Cabrera will progress in the bottom half of the draw, with the winner of Victorians <strong>Destanee Aiava<\/strong> and <strong>Sally Peers<\/strong> standing next in her way. Beyond that, a potential quarterfinal match-up with last week\u2019s Bendigo finalist and third seed, American <strong>Asia Muhammad<\/strong>, looms.<\/p>\n<p>The highest ranked Australian in the ITF $50,000 field is <strong>Arina Rodionova<\/strong>, the fifth seed. She is on track to meet the tournament\u2019s top seed, Japan\u2019s<strong> Risa Ozaki<\/strong> \u2013 the Bendigo champion \u2013 at the quarterfinal stage.<\/p>\n<p>Ozaki starts her campaign for consecutive titles against qualifier <strong>Abbie Myers<\/strong>, before facing either <strong>Olivia Rogowska<\/strong> or rising Papa new Guinean <strong>Abigail Tere-Apisah<\/strong>, who made her third Pro Tour semifinal in Bendigo before falling easily to the Japanese world No.103.<\/p>\n<p>The second seed, also hailing from Japan, is <strong>Hiroko Kuwata<\/strong>. She has drawn experienced West Australian <strong>Jessica Moore<\/strong> in the first round with yet another countrywoman, eighth seed <strong>Shuko Aoyama<\/strong>, a possible quarterfinal opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Aoyama will first need to get past Tammi Patterson and possibly wildcard <strong>Sara Tomic<\/strong> \u2013 who takes to the court on Tuesday November 1 against Slovakian<strong> Zuzana<\/strong> <strong>Zlochova<\/strong> \u2013 to reach the last eight.<\/p>\n<p><em>Live scores of all Australian Pro Tour events are available through<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/protour\/scores\"><em>www.tennis.com.au\/protour\/scores<\/em><\/a><em> and for a live stream of selected events visit<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/protour\"><em>www.tennis.com.au\/protour<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queensland teen Lizette Cabrera is the in-form Australian heading into the first day of main draw play in the Apis Canberra International. The recent wildcard recipient into qualifying at the upcoming Australian Open 2017 has made an impressive run during the Australian Pro Tour thus far, collecting two titles (Tweed Heads and Brisbane) and rising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5971,"featured_media":9779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9765","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\/9765","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=9765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}