{"id":12015,"date":"2017-01-09T16:43:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T06:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=12015"},"modified":"2017-01-09T16:43:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T06:13:42","slug":"peter-gojowczyk-takes-home-the-city-of-onkaparinga-tennis-challenger-2017-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2017\/01\/09\/peter-gojowczyk-takes-home-the-city-of-onkaparinga-tennis-challenger-2017-crown","title":{"rendered":"Peter Gojowczyk takes home the City of Onkaparinga Tennis Challenger 2017 crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Peter Gojowczyk<\/strong> (GER) is the <strong>City of Onkaparinga Tennis Challenger 2017 <\/strong>champion, after taking out the men\u2019s singles title in Happy Valley on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Gojowczyk defeated <strong>Omar Jasika<\/strong> (Vic) 6-3 6-1 to win the event in its third year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great performance. I was hitting the ball clear, I was moving well, I was serving well. It was a perfect day,\u201d said Gojowczyk following his match.<\/p>\n<p>This is Gojowczyk\u2019s fifth Challenger title. Having started the week as world No.189, Gojowczyk now moves to ranking of No.157. Leading into the final, Gojowczyk\u2019s performance had been dominant, making his way through the week without dropping a set.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, the doubles final was played with top seeds <strong>Hans Podlipnik-Castillo<\/strong> (CHI) and <strong>Max Schnur<\/strong> (USA) taking the first set 7-6(5), before Australia\u2019s<strong> Steven De Waard <\/strong>(Qld) and <strong>Marc Polmans<\/strong> (Vic) took the second set 6-4 to level it. <strong>Podlipnik-Castillo<\/strong> and <strong>Schnur <\/strong>were crowned the champions, taking the match tiebreak 10-6.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fitting finale for the week-long event which gave local tennis fans the opportunity to get up close to some of the world\u2019s best players as they competed for $US 75,000 in prize money and valuable world ranking points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Gojowczyk (GER) is the City of Onkaparinga Tennis Challenger 2017 champion, after taking out the men\u2019s singles title in Happy Valley on Sunday. Gojowczyk defeated Omar Jasika (Vic) 6-3 6-1 to win the event in its third year. \u201cIt was a great performance. I was hitting the ball clear, I was moving well, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":12017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}