{"id":17460,"date":"2019-02-14T09:27:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=17460"},"modified":"2019-02-14T09:27:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T22:57:58","slug":"day-3-port-pirie-come-see-change-tennis-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2019\/02\/14\/day-3-port-pirie-come-see-change-tennis-international","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 &#8211; Port Pirie Come See Change Tennis International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 3 at the Port Pirie Come See Change Tennis International saw top seed <strong>Jennifer Elie<\/strong> (USA) prove way too strong for qualifier <strong>Yasmina El Sayed<\/strong> (AUS) winning in straight sets without conceding a game. Elie is in devastating form and is clearly enjoying her return to Port Pirie.<\/p>\n<p>Local junior qualifier <strong>Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz<\/strong> (SA) also enjoyed a comprehensive win against <strong>Cyan Sun<\/strong> (Qld) triumphing in straight sets 6-1, 6-0. Fourteen year old Kempenaers-Pocz was absolutely delighted with her first win at Pro Tour level and thrilled the local crowd with her powerful shot-making.<\/p>\n<p>Other players to progress through to the second round included local players <strong>Olivia Ley<\/strong> (SA) and <strong>Tayla Whitehouse <\/strong>(SA). Ley overcame <strong>Jessica Fowler <\/strong>(Tas) in a three set match that lasted well over two hours, while Whitehouse ousted seventh seed <strong>Lisa Mays<\/strong> (NSW) in two tight sets.<\/p>\n<p>Second round singles matches commence today with eight great match-ups including <strong>Amy Stevens<\/strong> (Vic) up against second seed <strong>Lulu Sun<\/strong> (SUI), <strong>Tayla Whitehouse <\/strong>(SA) versus <strong>Natasha Russell<\/strong> (SA) and <strong>Michiru Furuya<\/strong> against <strong>Bojana Marinkov<\/strong> (NSW). The match of the day looks to be the third seeded <strong>Valentina Ivanov<\/strong>\u00a0(NZL) playing against her doubles partner and local favourite <strong>Amber Marshall<\/strong>. All doubles quarter final matches will also be played today.<\/p>\n<p>Updated draws and order of play for Thursday 14 February now available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/tournaments\/pro-tournaments\/australian-pro-tour\/port-pirie-come-see-change-tennis-international\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 3 at the Port Pirie Come See Change Tennis International saw top seed Jennifer Elie (USA) prove way too strong for qualifier Yasmina El Sayed (AUS) winning in straight sets without conceding a game. Elie is in devastating form and is clearly enjoying her return to Port Pirie. Local junior qualifier Charlotte Kempenaers-Pocz (SA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":17461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17460","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\/17460","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=17460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}