{"id":14088,"date":"2019-02-27T19:42:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T08:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/?p=14088"},"modified":"2019-02-28T07:37:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:37:51","slug":"day-1-2-albury-city-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/news\/2019\/02\/27\/day-1-2-albury-city-international","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 &amp; 2 Albury City International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were highlights all round on Day 1 and 2 of the Albury City International. The weather was hot as expected but the grass courts are pulling up beautifully. See some of the highlights below from the days play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The first round of the Qualifying draw was played today at the Albury City Tennis International.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It was a day where the seeded players in qualifying made a good start to their Tournaments, with a majority winning through to tomorrow\u2019s final round of qualifying matches.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>NSW players in the qualifying draw; <strong>Connor Johnson<\/strong>, <strong>Benard Nkomba<\/strong> and <strong>Tom Evans<\/strong> bowed out of the Tournament today, but will take valuable exposure to matches at this level moving forward.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Updated Draws and Order of Play can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tournaments\/australian-pro-tour\/albury-tennis-international\">here<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The final round of Singles Qualifying matches, as well as Main Draw Singles and Doubles Matches were played today at the Albury City Tennis International.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Four of the qualifying matches went the distance, being decided by a third set match tiebreak.<br \/>\n<strong>Ken Cavrak<\/strong> (VIC) took full advantage of his Wildcard into the Qualifying draw, with an impressive 6-3 4-6 10-4 victory against <strong>Jayden Court<\/strong>(QLD) to secure a place in the Main Draw.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>In the Singles Main Draw, number 1 seed <strong>Brydan Klein<\/strong> (GBR) started his Tournament with a 6-3 6-0 win against <strong>Matthew Dellavedova <\/strong>(VIC), whilst <strong>Yuta Shimizu <\/strong>(JPN) was pushed all the way by <strong>Ajeet Rai <\/strong>(NZL), winning 6-0 3-6 7-6(5).<br \/>\nMain Draw Singles matches continue tomorrow, as well as the final Doubles match to complete the first round of matches in that draw.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Updated Draws and Order of Play can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tournaments\/australian-pro-tour\/albury-tennis-international\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were highlights all round on Day 1 and 2 of the Albury City International. The weather was hot as expected but the grass courts are pulling up beautifully. See some of the highlights below from the days play. Day 1 The first round of the Qualifying draw was played today at the Albury City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6159,"featured_media":14089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}