{"id":4425,"date":"2013-04-10T15:33:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T06:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2013-04-10T15:33:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T06:03:03","slug":"shepheard-records-first-win-on-the-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/news\/2013\/04\/10\/shepheard-records-first-win-on-the-dirt","title":{"rendered":"Shepheard Records First Win on the Dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Shepheard has recorded a great first round win at the Optus 12s National Claycourt Championships <\/a>in Ipswich, Queensland.<\/p>\n

Shepheard took the first set comfortably 6-1 before his opponent Enzo Aguiard of Victoria fought back to take the second set 5-7. Stretched to the limit and out of his comfort zone on the red dirt, Shepheard the tournament fifth seed recovered marvellously in the third set to close out the match 6-0.<\/p>\n

Shepheard backed up his singles win with an impressive performance in the doubles. Teaming up with South Australian Sean Van Rensburg to defeat Victorian pairing of\u00a0Justin Butera and Joshua Spaull 6-4 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Shepheard has recorded a great first round win at the Optus 12s National Claycourt Championships in Ipswich, Queensland. Shepheard took the first set comfortably 6-1 before his opponent Enzo Aguiard of Victoria fought back to take the second set 5-7. Stretched to the limit and out of his comfort zone on the red dirt, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5924,"featured_media":4426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[146,147],"class_list":["post-4425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-michael-shepheard","tag-optus-national-claycourt-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425","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=4425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/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=4425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/nt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}