{"id":24387,"date":"2023-11-01T10:43:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T23:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/?p=24387"},"modified":"2023-11-01T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T23:44:08","slug":"lucky-loser-blake-mott-advances-to-the-nsw-open-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/news\/2023\/11\/01\/lucky-loser-blake-mott-advances-to-the-nsw-open-quarterfinals","title":{"rendered":"Lucky loser, Blake Mott advances to the NSW Open quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Wednesday 1\u00a0November<\/h4>\n<p>Day 4 of the NSW Open is complete.<\/p>\n<p>Today kicked off with a female Aussie battle on Centre Court, with\u00a0<strong>Alana Parnaby <\/strong>(VIC) and <strong>Destanee Aiava<\/strong>\u00a0(VIC) going head to head. In the end <b>Aiava\u00a0<\/b>overpowered <strong>Parnaby<\/strong>, 6-4 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky loser, <strong>Blake Mott\u00a0<\/strong>(NSW), has secured his spot in the quarterfinals, after a strong victory over <strong>Ryan Seggerman\u00a0<\/strong>(USA)\u00a06-2, 63.<\/p>\n<p>On the women&#8217;s side, the number 1 seed in the women\u2019s draw,<strong> Sujeong Jang (KOR),<\/strong> was too strong for <strong>Talia Gibson<\/strong>\u00a0(WA)<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>taking her down 6-4, 6-2. <strong>Ivana Popovic<\/strong>\u00a0(NSW) also had a tough match against <strong>Taylah Preston<\/strong>\u00a0(WA) and went down 6-3 7-5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tennis NSW<\/strong> hosted their Player Development Coaches Workshop today. Guest panelists, Brent Larkham and Mark Draper discussed life as a High Performance Tour Coach, life on the road and what the current trends are at the highest level. Scott Draper followed with his \u201cKnow the level, be the Level\u201d presentation, captivating the coaches and leaving them wanting more.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow,\u00a0number 1 seed <strong>Thanasi Kokkinakis<\/strong>\u00a0(SA) is up against <strong>Philip Sekulic<\/strong>\u00a0(QLD) on Centre Court.\u00a0<strong>Rinky Hijikata <\/strong>(NSW)\u00a0will conclude the matches on Centre Court against <strong>Chak Lam Coleman Wong\u00a0<\/strong>(HKG)<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other notable Aussies playing tomorrow include, <strong>Gabriella da Silva-Fick, Destanee Aiava, Dane Sweeny<\/strong> and <strong>Jamie Fourlis<\/strong> to name a few.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Coming up<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Thursday 2 November 2023<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24389\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/files\/2023\/11\/1-916x768.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/files\/2023\/11\/1-916x768.png 916w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/files\/2023\/11\/1-768x644.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/files\/2023\/11\/1.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-24388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/files\/2023\/11\/2-916x768.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/files\/2023\/11\/2-916x768.png 916w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/files\/2023\/11\/2-768x644.png 768w, https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/files\/2023\/11\/2.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday 1\u00a0November Day 4 of the NSW Open is complete. Today kicked off with a female Aussie battle on Centre Court, with\u00a0Alana Parnaby (VIC) and Destanee Aiava\u00a0(VIC) going head to head. In the end Aiava\u00a0overpowered Parnaby, 6-4 6-3. Lucky loser, Blake Mott\u00a0(NSW), has secured his spot in the quarterfinals, after a strong victory over Ryan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6323,"featured_media":24391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24387","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\/24387","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\/6323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nsw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}