{"id":3841,"date":"2012-09-12T16:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T06:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=3841"},"modified":"2012-09-12T16:13:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T06:43:13","slug":"barton-wins-alice-springs-tennis-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2012\/09\/12\/barton-wins-alice-springs-tennis-international","title":{"rendered":"Barton Wins Alice Springs Tennis International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matthew Barton <\/strong>(NSW) has won his first Australian Pro Tour singles title at the <span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tour\/events\/2012-aug-dec-events\/alice-springs-tennis-international\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0091d2\">Alice Springs Tennis International<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was a hallmark win for 20-year-old Barton who defeated top seed <strong>Sam Groth<\/strong> (VIC) in blazing fashion to take the men\u2019s championship 7-6(3) 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I\u2019m really happy. It\u2019s my first title and I played a great match. Hopefully there are bigger things to come in the future<\/em>,\u201d said an elated Barton after his victory.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI saved a set point early in the first set. I was 5-4 down, serving and I managed to hit an ace. I just took confidence from that into the tiebreaker and took my opportunities when they came.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>In the second set, Sam was up a break and I managed to rattle off five straight games. He\u2019s got the world\u2019s fastest serve so I hung in there and battled hard<\/em>,\u201d added Barton.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a convincing result for the world No.494, who heading into the match trailed the No.256 ranked Groth 0-2 in their head-to-head count. The right-hander seems to be coming into some form as we move towards the Australian summer after already posting some positive results on the Asian Futures circuit earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Pro Tour now moves to South Australia for the <em><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong>City of Onkaparinga International <\/strong><\/span><\/em>(men\u2019s event) and<em><span style=\"color: #0091d2\"><strong> City of Salisbury Tennis International <\/strong><\/span><\/em>(women\u2019s event).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Barton (NSW) has won his first Australian Pro Tour singles title at the Alice Springs Tennis International. It was a hallmark win for 20-year-old Barton who defeated top seed Sam Groth (VIC) in blazing fashion to take the men\u2019s championship 7-6(3) 6-3. \u201cI\u2019m really happy. It\u2019s my first title and I played a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":3842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,66,10],"class_list":["post-3841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alice-springs-tennis-association","tag-alice-springs-tennis-international","tag-tennis-alice-springs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}