{"id":14239,"date":"2018-01-06T20:09:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T09:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=14239"},"modified":"2018-01-06T20:14:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T09:44:35","slug":"14239","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2018\/01\/06\/14239","title":{"rendered":"Day 8 &#8211; City of Playford Tennis International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 8 at the City of Playford Tennis International has been a great day for the Aussies, with three moving through to tomorrow\u2019s singles finals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zoe Hives<\/strong> (Vic) once again brought her A-game with a 6-1 6-4 victory over the last remaining seed in the draw, [6] <strong>Marie Bouzkova <\/strong>(CZE). Meanwhile, <strong>Alexandra Bozovic<\/strong> (NSW) moved in to the final after <strong>Jessika Ponchet<\/strong> (FRA) was forced to retire at 4-1 in the first set.<\/p>\n<p>Qualifier <strong>Jason Kubler<\/strong> (Qld) will fly the Australian flag in the men\u2019s final after he defeated the big serving American, <strong>Reilly Opelka<\/strong> 7-6(3) 6-3. <strong>Brayden Schnur<\/strong> (CAN) then secured a place in the final with a 6-3 7-6(3) victory over <strong>Evan King<\/strong> (USA).<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, <strong>Mackenzie McDonald <\/strong>and<strong> Tommy Paul <\/strong>(USA) were crowned the City of Playford Tennis International Men\u2019s Doubles Champions following a close 7-6(4) 6-4 victory over wildcards <strong>Maverick Banes\/Jason Kubler <\/strong>(Qld).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interview with Mackenzie McDonald and Tommy Paul - Saturday 6 January\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9hMH3Lo7FRA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Day 9 is singles finals day. The day is set to open with the WTC City of Playford Kids Tennis Day, including a special visit from the Bryan Brothers. Kubler and Schnur will then open Centre Court at 11.00 am, with Hives and Bozovic to follow, not before 12.30 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Draws and orders of play for Sunday 7 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>Day 8 at the City of Playford Tennis International has been a great day for the Aussies, with three moving through to tomorrow\u2019s singles finals. Zoe Hives (Vic) once again brought her A-game with a 6-1 6-4 victory over the last remaining seed in the draw, [6] Marie Bouzkova (CZE). Meanwhile, Alexandra Bozovic (NSW) moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14239","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=14239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}