{"id":14151,"date":"2018-01-01T19:29:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T08:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=14151"},"modified":"2018-01-01T19:29:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T08:59:28","slug":"day-3-city-of-playford-tennis-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2018\/01\/01\/day-3-city-of-playford-tennis-international","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 &#8211; City of Playford Tennis International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singles qualifying and first round men\u2019s doubles matches have been completed on Day 3 at the City of Playford Tennis International.<\/p>\n<p>[4] <strong>Marinko Matosevic <\/strong>(Vic) had a relatively straight forward win over <strong>Christopher O\u2019Connell<\/strong> (NSW) 6-4 6-0, <strong>Hugo Grenier<\/strong> (FRA) defeated <strong>Andrew Harris<\/strong> (Vic) 7-6(3) 6-3, [6] <strong>Jason Kubler<\/strong> (Qld) overcame [2] <strong>Dayne Kelly <\/strong>(Vic) 7-6(1) 6-4 and [4] <strong>Maverick Banes<\/strong> (Qld) defeated <strong>Sebastian Korda<\/strong> (USA) 6-3 6-4, making their way through to the main draw.<\/p>\n<p>Top seed <strong>Jennifer Elie<\/strong> (USA) defeated <strong>Tina Smith<\/strong> (Qld) 6-1 6-3, [2] <strong>Allie Kiick <\/strong>(USA) overcame [13] <strong>Alicia Smith<\/strong> (Qld) 6-2 6-0 and in the longest match of the day [7] <strong>Marta Kostyuk<\/strong> (UKR) took a 6-2 4-6 6-2 win over [15] <strong>Elysia Bolton<\/strong> (NSW) to book their place in the main draw.<\/p>\n<p>Day 3\u2019s schedule includes the first round of men\u2019s main draw singles matches, along with the first round of women\u2019s doubles.<\/p>\n<p>[3] <strong>Jessica Moore<\/strong> (WA)<strong>\/Lin Zhu <\/strong>(CHN) will open proceedings against <strong>Alison Bai<\/strong> (ACT)<strong>\/Zoe Hives <\/strong>(Vic) on Centre Court, followed by the all-Australian wildcard match of <strong>Max Purcell<\/strong> (NSW) and <strong>Omar Jasika<\/strong> (Vic). Number one seed <strong>Daniil Medvedev<\/strong> (RUS) will take on <strong>Matosevic <\/strong>in the third match, with <strong>Marc Polmans<\/strong> (Vic) against second seed <strong>Bjorn Fratangelo<\/strong> (USA) to follow. South Australia\u2019s <strong>Alex Bolt <\/strong>will make his City of Playford Tennis International singles debut in the final match on Centre Court against <strong>Arthur De Greef<\/strong> (BEL).<\/p>\n<p>Qualification draws,\u00a0singles main draws, doubles main draws and orders of play for Tuesday 2 January now available at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tournaments\/australian-pro-tour\/city-of-playford-tennis-international\">tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tournaments\/australian-pro-tour\/city-of-playford-tennis-international<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singles qualifying and first round men\u2019s doubles matches have been completed on Day 3 at the City of Playford Tennis International. [4] Marinko Matosevic (Vic) had a relatively straight forward win over Christopher O\u2019Connell (NSW) 6-4 6-0, Hugo Grenier (FRA) defeated Andrew Harris (Vic) 7-6(3) 6-3, [6] Jason Kubler (Qld) overcame [2] Dayne Kelly (Vic) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":14152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14151","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\/14151","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=14151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}