The strength of the Australian men\u2019s contingent at the Apis Canberra International is on full display at tomorrow\u2019s quarter-finals with seven out of eight spots going to Aussies.<\/p>\n
Jordan Thompson <\/strong>(NSW), James Duckworth<\/strong>\u00a0(NSW) and John-Patrick Smith<\/strong>\u00a0(QLD) are the latest to progress through to the quarter-finals after a successful Day 6.<\/p>\n Thompson easily accounted for Matthew Ebden <\/strong>(WA), only dropping two games in a 6-0, 6-2 walkover.<\/p>\n Top seed Thompson will tomorrow face eighth seed John-Patrick Smith, who also played out a reasonably one-sided second-round clash with Vijay Prashanth<\/strong> (IND), taking just under an hour to cruise to a 6-1, 6-2 win.<\/p>\n Continuing the run of straight sets victories in the second-round, fifth seed Duckworth notched up a 6-3, 6-3 straight sets win against Sumit Nagal <\/strong>(IND).<\/p>\n In the final men\u2019s singles match of Day 6,\u00a0Daniel Masur<\/strong> (GER) knocked out Maverick Banes (QLD)\u00a07-6(2), 6-3 after pushing the first set to two tie-breaks.<\/p>\n Masur will be the sole international through to the quarter-finals when he meets Duckworth on Day 7.<\/p>\n In the women\u2019s competition, two Australians remain after the second round, fifth seed Arina Rodionova<\/strong>\u00a0(VIC) and Tammi Patterson <\/strong>(VIC)\u00a0are left to fly the flag.<\/p>\n Rodionova took almost an hour and a half to finish off the competition hopes of Queensland teen Olivia Tjandramulia<\/strong> 6-2, 7-5. She will meet top seed Risa Ozaki<\/strong> tomorrow at 11am on Centre Court, the opening match of the day.<\/p>\n Patterson\u00a0(VIC) outplayed Zuzana Zlochova<\/strong> from the Slovak Republic winning 6-4, 6-4 in 69 minutes.\u00a0 Patterson will now take on Italian qualifier Georgia Breschia<\/strong> who caused the upset of the day by eliminating second seed Hiroko Kuwata <\/strong>(JPN).<\/p>\n Canberra girl Alison Bai<\/strong> and partner Lizette Cabrera<\/strong> (QLD) progressed to tomorrow\u2019s doubles semi-final with a tight 6-4, 7-5 quarter-final victory over Victorians Tammi Patterson and Sally Peers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Tomorrow\u2019s order of play includes all of the singles quarter-finals together with all of the doubles semi-finals. Following Rodionova and Ozaki, Thompson will take on eighth seed, Smith.\u00a0Patterson is also in action at 11am where she will meet qualifier, Brescia (ITA).<\/p>\n Live streaming continues tomorrow with men\u2019s live scores and stream of Centre and Court 5 at \u00a0atpchallengertour.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Live scoring and streaming of two of the women\u2019s matches will be available at tennis.com.au\/protour<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The strength of the Australian men\u2019s contingent at the Apis Canberra International is on full display at tomorrow\u2019s quarter-finals with seven out of eight spots going to Aussies. Jordan Thompson (NSW), James Duckworth\u00a0(NSW) and John-Patrick Smith\u00a0(QLD) are the latest to progress through to the quarter-finals after a successful Day 6. Thompson easily accounted for Matthew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5971,"featured_media":9852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9848","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\/9848","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=9848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}