{"id":22943,"date":"2021-06-06T21:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T11:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/?p=22943"},"modified":"2021-06-06T21:58:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T12:28:02","slug":"back-to-back-utr-pro-tennis-tour-titles-for-tu-and-bozovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/news\/2021\/06\/06\/back-to-back-utr-pro-tennis-tour-titles-for-tu-and-bozovic","title":{"rendered":"Back-to-back UTR Pro Tennis Tour titles for Tu and Bozovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second <strong>UTR Pro Tennis Tour<\/strong> tournament at West Lakes wrapped up this afternoon with top seeds <strong>Li Tu<\/strong> (Royston Park, SA) and <strong>Alexandra Bozovic <\/strong>(NSW) claiming back-to-back titles.<\/p>\n<p>Tu defeated <strong>Scott Jones<\/strong> (WA) 6-3 2-6 6-4 to win the men\u2019s tournament, making it five from five UTR Pro Tennis Tour titles in his home state.<\/p>\n<p>Tu started strongly, claiming a tight first set in 53 minutes. Jones then turned it around to take the second set 6-2 and level the match. Momentum remained with Jones at the beginning of the third before Tu fought back to eventually take the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was a tough match, Scott\u2019s been playing really well all week,\u201d Tu said following the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe found something in the second set and really pushed me, but I thought it was a great match, I was lucky to get the win today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe home crowd makes a difference. I was struggling a bit in the second and third, but I really feel like the home support got me over the line today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a rematch of last week\u2019s women\u2019s final, Bozovic defeated <strong>Belinda Woolcock<\/strong> (Vic) 7-6(2) 6-2 to take the win.<\/p>\n<p>The opening set was tight with both players struggling to hold the momentum, before Bozovic claimed it in a tiebreak after just over an hour of play. Bozovic held on in the second set to take the match 7-6(2) 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s match was pretty tough with the conditions. I had to fight it out from the first point, Belinda was switched on and we had a very close match,\u201d Bozovic said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis last fortnight has been amazing. The people here have been so accommodating, everyone has been very welcoming and it\u2019s been a really great tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to Li and Alexandra for an outstanding two weeks at West Lakes,\u201d said Tennis SA CEO, <strong>Debbie Sterrey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have thoroughly enjoyed having the UTR Pro Tennis Tour back in South Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur sincere thanks to Col, Tania, Deb and the team at West Lakes Tennis Club for their efforts and hospitality over the past fortnight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>UTR Pro Tennis Tour West Lakes Tournament #2<br \/>\n<\/u><\/strong><strong>Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Men<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>[1] Li Tu (SA) def. Scott Jones (WA) 6-3 2-6 6-4<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Women<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>[1] Alexandra Bozovic (NSW) def. [2] Belinda Woolcock (Vic) 7-6(2) 6-2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second UTR Pro Tennis Tour tournament at West Lakes wrapped up this afternoon with top seeds Li Tu (Royston Park, SA) and Alexandra Bozovic (NSW) claiming back-to-back titles. Tu defeated Scott Jones (WA) 6-3 2-6 6-4 to win the men\u2019s tournament, making it five from five UTR Pro Tennis Tour titles in his home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5736,"featured_media":22944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22943","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\/22943","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=22943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}