{"id":9861,"date":"2016-11-04T21:47:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T10:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/?p=9861"},"modified":"2016-11-04T21:47:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T10:47:59","slug":"bai-flies-canberras-flag-for-doubles-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/news\/2016\/11\/04\/bai-flies-canberras-flag-for-doubles-final","title":{"rendered":"Bai flies Canberra’s flag for Doubles Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canberra\u2019s own Alison Bai<\/strong> will step onto Centre Court for the women\u2019s doubles final on Day 9 of the Apis Canberra International<\/strong>, along with partner Lizette Cabrera<\/strong> (QLD).<\/p>\n

Bai and Cabrera will play second seeds Jessica Moore <\/strong>(WA) and Storm Sanders<\/strong> (QLD) in the doubles decider, having dispatched the top seeds Arina Rodionova<\/strong> (VIC) and Asia Muhammad<\/strong> (USA) in a tense semi-final clash, 6-3, 3-6, 10-2.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s doubles final will also feature all-Australian line up, with top seeds Matt Reid <\/strong>(NSW) and John-Patrick Smith<\/strong> (QLD) facing second seeds Luke Saville <\/strong>(SA) and Jordan Thompson<\/strong> (NSW).<\/p>\n

Victorian Omar Jasika<\/strong> has stormed into the men\u2019s singles semi-finals, achieving his best ever ATP Challenger Tour result.\u00a0 Jasika, the 2014 US Open Junior champion, has reached three ATP Challenger Tour quarter-finals without managing to progress any further. Today, he easily accounted for qualifier Greg Jones<\/strong> (NSW) 6-3, 6-1 in just 74 minutes. Jasika will meet ninth seed and four time ITF Pro Circuits champion Marc Polmans<\/strong> in tomorrow\u2019s semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Top seed Jordan Thompson<\/strong> (NSW) continued his three week ATP Challenger Tour unbeaten streak with a straight sets victory over Queenslander John-Patrick Smith<\/strong> 6-1 7-6(5). \u00a0In the last quarter final result for the day, James Duckworth <\/strong>streamed through, eliminating the last international player remaining in the men\u2019s draw, qualifier Daniel Masur<\/strong> (GER), 6-1, 6-4.<\/p>\n

In the women\u2019s draw, two Australians started the day, but were unable to progress to the semi-finals.\u00a0 Fifth seed Victorian Arina Rodionova<\/strong> went down to top seed Risa Ozaki<\/strong> from Japan 6-4, 6-3 and Tammi Patterson<\/strong> (VIC) was eliminated by Italian qualifier Georgia Brescia<\/strong> 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n

Ozaki, winner of last week\u2019s Bendigo International, will meet Jennifer Elie<\/strong> from the United States in the semi-finals after Elie eliminated sixth seed and 2015 Canberra International finalist, Eri Hozumi <\/strong>from Japan 7-5, 6-3.\u00a0 Brescia will take on seventh seed Jana Fett<\/strong> tomorrow after she eliminated Yuuki Tanaka<\/strong> (JPN) 6-2, 6-1.<\/p>\n

On Day 9, play gets underway at 11:00am with the singles semi-finals. Two men\u2019s and two women\u2019s matches will determine the finals for Sunday. The men\u2019s matches will take place on Centre Court and Court 5 will host the women\u2019s matches.<\/p>\n

In addition to all the action on court, there will be activities for the whole family including face painting, a jumping castle and speed-serve activities.<\/p>\n

Gates open at 10am, with public entry by gold coin donation.<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s live streaming: atpchallengertour.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s live scoring and live streaming: tennis.com.au\/protour<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canberra\u2019s own Alison Bai will step onto Centre Court for the women\u2019s doubles final on Day 9 of the Apis Canberra International, along with partner Lizette Cabrera (QLD). Bai and Cabrera will play second seeds Jessica Moore (WA) and Storm Sanders (QLD) in the doubles decider, having dispatched the top seeds Arina Rodionova (VIC) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5971,"featured_media":9862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9861","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\/9861","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=9861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/act\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}