{"id":1275,"date":"2011-02-03T08:27:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T22:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2011-02-03T08:27:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T22:57:57","slug":"stay-updated-on-luke-saville-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2011\/02\/03\/stay-updated-on-luke-saville-progress","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Luke Saville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?attachment_id=1027\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1032\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2011\/02\/03\/stay-updated-on-luke-saville-progress\/attachment\/saville-ao\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1032\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/files\/2011\/02\/saville-AO-410x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to South Australian Luke Saville for taking out the runner-up final of the Australian junior championships.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old was beaten 6-0, 6-3 by top seeded Czech Jiri Vesely and battled illness leading into the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was physically not 100 per cent but that\u2019s taking absolutely nothing away from him,\u201d Saville said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was 100 per cent I think he\u2019d still be victorious \u2013 he was the better player today.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was his second final in as many weeks and Saville plans to continue his program of hitting with senior players as much as possible, hoping to be included in the Davis Cup squad this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully this time next year I\u2019m either playing the juniors or possibly the men\u2019s out there again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a match I\u2019ll try and take all the things I learnt from it and try and build on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saville said he planned to play the French, Wimbledon and US Grand Slam junior championships and try to transition to the men\u2019s circuit as well.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article on\u00a0Luke&#8217;s Australian Junior Championships performance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/news\/2011\/01\/29\/aussie-junior-saville-beaten-at-open\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow\u00a0Luke Saville&#8217;s 2011 progress on facebook <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Luke-Saville-On-Tour-2011\/159048920810850\"><strong>here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide&#8217;s tennis star Luke Saville impresses at the Australian Junior Championships finals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5915,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","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\/1275","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\/5915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}